# de Spectaculis 18

Martial, de Spectaculis, Poem 18. Latin.

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Lambere securi dextram consueta magistri
tigris, ab Hyrcano gloria rara iugo,
saeua ferum rabido lacerauit dente leonem:
res noua, non ullis cognita temporibus.
Ausa est tale nihil, siluis dum uixit in altis:
postquam inter nos est, plus feritatis habet.

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