# de Spectaculis XXVb

Martial, de Spectaculis, Poem XXVb. Latin.

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Cum peteret dulces audax Leandros amores
et fessus tumidis iam premeretur aquis,
sic miser instantes adfatus dicitur undas:
'Parcite dum propero, mergite cum redeo.'

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