TO A BIBLIOMANIAC
Paraphrased from an Epigram of Ausonius
Because your books are richly bound,
You feel a scholar through and through?
Then one Cremona, smooth and sound,
Would make a fiddler of you too!
Emptis quod libris tibi bibliotheca referta est,
Doctum et grammaticum te, Philomuse, putas?
Hoc genere et chordas, et plectra, et barbita conde;
Omnia mercatus, cras citharoedus eris!
Aus., Epig. xliv.