# Epigrammata 2.77

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 2.77. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/2.77

Cosconi, qui longa putas epigrammata nostra,
Utilis unguendis axibus esse potes.
Hac tu credideris longum ratione colosson
Et puerum Bruti dixeris esse brevem.
Disce quod ignoras: Marsi doctique Pedonis
Saepe duplex unum pagina tractat opus.
Non sunt longa quibus nihil est quod demere possis
Sed tu, Cosconi, disticha longa facis.

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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.