As God is my witness, if Augustus himself, master of the whole world, did me the honor of marriage and established the entire globe as my eternal possession, it would still seem dearer and more proper to me to be called your whore than his empress.
, si me Augustus universo praesidens mundo matrimonii honore dignaretur, totumque mihi orbem confirmaret in perpetuo possidendum, carius mihi et dignius videretur tua dici meretrix quam illius imperatrix.