# Epigrammata 4.22

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 4.22. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/4.22

Primos passa toros et adhuc placanda marito
Merserat in nitidos se Cleopatra lacus,
Dum fugit amplexus. Sed prodidit unda latentem;
Lucebat, totis cum tegeretur aquis:
Condita sic puro numerantur lilia vitro,
Sic prohibet tenuis gemma latere rosas.
Insilui mersusque vadis luctantia carpsi
Basia: perspicuae plus vetuistis aquae.

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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.