# Epigrammata 4.16

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 4.16. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/4.16

Privignum non esse tuae te, Galle, novercae
Rumor erat, coniunx dum fuit illa patris.
Non tamen hoc poterat vivo genitore probari.
Iam nusquam pater est, Galle, noverca domi est.
Magnus ab infernis revocetur Tullius umbris
Et te defendat Regulus ipse licet,
Non potes absolvi: nam quae non desinit esse
Post patrem, numquam, Galle, noverca fuit.

---

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.