# Epigrammata 3.50

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 3.50. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/3.50

Haec tibi, non alia, est ad cenam causa vocandi,
Versiculos recites ut, Ligurine, tuos.
Deposui soleas, adfertur protinus ingens
Inter lactucas oxygarumque liber:
Alter perlegitur, dum fercula prima morantur:
Tertius est, nec adhuc mensa secunda venit:
Et quartum recitas et quintum denique librum.
Putidus est, totiens si mihi ponis aprum.
Quod si non scombris scelerata poemata donas,
Cenabis solus iam, Ligurine, domi.

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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.