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XCIV


Scribebamus epos; coepisti scribere: cessi,
Aemula ne starent carmina nostra tuis.
Transtulit ad tragicos se nostra Thalia coturnos:
Aptasti longum tu quoque syrma tibi.
5Fila lyrae movi Calabris exculta Camenis:
Plectra rapis nobis, ambitiose, nova.
Audemus saturas: Lucilius esse laboras.
Ludo levis elegos: tu quoque ludis idem.
Quid minus esse potest? epigrammata fingere coepi:
10Hinc etiam petitur iam mea palma tibi.
Elige, quid nolis—quis enim pudor, omnia velle?—
Et si quid non vis, Tucca, relinque mihi.

M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammaton libri / recognovit W. Heraeus. Martial. Wilhelm Heraeus. Jacobus Borovskij. Leipzig. 1925/1976.

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