Catullus 4

That ship which you see, guests, says that it was the fastest of ships, and it denies that the speed of any floating timber surpasses, whether work will be to fly by oars or sail. And it says that the shore of threatening Adriadic does not deny this (speed), or the Cycladic islands and noble Rhodes and terrible Thracian Propontians or the ferocious bay (where that later skiff was before leafy forest—for on the Cytorian ridge it often yielded a whispering sound). (O) Amastris sea and boxwood-bearing Cytorus, the skiff says that these things were and are very well-known to you. It says that it stood on your peak from its ultimate beginning, it drenched its oars in your water; and thence through so many wild straits it carried its master, (whether) a left or right wind calls, or a favorable Jupiter fell upon each sail at the same time; nor were any vows made for itself to the shore gods, when it came from the newest sea right up to this clear lake. But these things were before; now it is old in its quiet rest, and dedicates itself to you , little twin Castor and the little twin of Castor.