# Epigrammata 2.69

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 2.69. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/2.69

Invitum cenare foris te, Classice, dicis:
Si non mentiris, Classice, dispeream.
Ipse quoque ad cenam gaudebat Apicius ire:
Cum cenaret, erat tristior ille, domi.
Si tamen invitus vadis, cur, Classice, vadis?
'Cogor' ais: verum est; cogitur et Selius.
En rogat ad cenam Melior te, Classice, rectam.
Grandia verba ubi sunt? si vir es, ecce, nega.

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Martial, Epigrammata, ed. Wilhelm Heraeus, Jacobus Borovskij. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit/blob/master/data/phi1294/phi002/phi1294.phi002.perseus-lat2.xml.