IN A PERISTYLE

If you felt the fires of love, mule-driver,
You would make more haste to see Venus.
I love a charming boy, so I beg you, goad on the mules; let's go.
You have had a drink, so let's go. Take up the reins and shake them.
Take me to Pompeii where loves is sweet.

Inscribed in the peristyle courtyard of House IX.v.ii. Pompeii.
House of Poppaeus Sabinus