Propertius 2.31 (English)

You ask why I arrive so late? The golden portico of Phoebus Apollo was opened by great Caesar. It has been turned into a grand sight with its Punic columns, and between the columns stand members of that female bunch of old man Danaus. Here too, in my eyes more radiant than Phoebus himself, was the god in marble ready to sing with his unstruck lyre; and around the altar Myron's herd, four bulls of the sculptor, lifelike images.

Then at the center of all rises the temple in gleaming marble, more treasured by Phoebus than his Ortygian home. On it above the pediment Sol's chariot was found. And then the temple doors, finely worked in African ivory, the one a dirge for the Gauls fallen from the Parnassian height, the other a sob for the deaths of Tantalus' grandchildren. And then the Pythian god himself, between mother and sister, in flowing robe gives voice to song.