# de Spectaculis 24

Martial, de Spectaculis, Poem 24. Latin.

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Si quis ades longis serus spectator ab oris,
cui lux prima sacri muneris ista fuit,
ne te decipiat ratibus naualis Enyo
et par unda fretis, hic modo terra fuit.
Non credis? specta, dum lassant aequora Martem:
parua mora est, dices 'Hic modo pontus erat.'

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