# de Spectaculis 5

Martial, de Spectaculis, Poem 5. Latin.

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Iunctam Pasiphaen Dictaeo credite tauro:
uidimus, accepit fabula prisca fidem.
Nec se miretur, Caesar, longaeua uetustas:
quidquid fama canit, praestat harena tibi.

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