Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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