# de Spectaculis 17

Martial, de Spectaculis, Poem 17. Latin.

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Quod pius et supplex elephas te, Caesar, adorat
hic modo qui tauro tam metuendus erat,
non facit hoc iussus, nulloque docente magistro,
crede mihi, nostrum sentit et ille deum.

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