Not Mars alone has favored you, Invincible, At whom as enemy barbarian standards shake, But the Divine Community with gifts adore you, And with this in especial from the wife of Zephyr: She to the Dutch Apelles did perpetual spring Ordain, and meadows living by the painter's hand. Alcinous' charm is annual, and Adonis' gardens, Nor do the Pharian roses bloom long in that air; Antique Pomona of Semiramis has boasted, And yet deep winter climbs the summit of her roof. How shall your honors fail? The garlands that you wear Beseem Imperial triumph, which time may not touch.[10] I know there are other things to be censured in this epigram, but I note here only that one fault which it was quoted to illustrate. _On puns._ To the same general category may be referred most puns, the point of which usually rises from some untruth. For example, in Sannazaro's well-known epigram: Happy has built twin bridges on the Seine: Happy the Seine may call her Pontifex.[11] If you take _Pontifex_ in the sense of "builder of bridges" the thought is true, but pointless; consequently, for there to be a point the word _Pontifex_ must be taken in the sense of "Bishop", and in this sense it will be false that the Pontifex is happy. Similarly, in another epigram of some reputation: They say you're treating Cosma for his deafness, And that you promised, French, a definite cure; But you can't bring it off for all your deftness: He'll hear ill of himself while tongues endure.[12] Take _audire_ as referring to the sense of hearing and the thought is false, since that physical defect is curable; take it as referring to a good reputation, and the thought will again be false and inept, for it is false and inept that a doctor will labor in vain to cure a defect of the ears because he cannot medicine to a diseased reputation.