# Epigrammata 4.43

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 4.43. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/4.43

Non dixi, Coracine, te cinaedum:
Non sum tam temerarius nec audax
Nec mendacia qui loquar libenter.
Si dixi, Coracine, te cinaedum,
Iratam mihi Pontiae lagonam,
Iratum calicem mihi Metili:
Iuro per Syrios tibi tumores,
Iuro per Berecyntios furores.
Quid dixi tamen? Hoc leve et pusillum,
Quod notum est, quod et ipse non negabis,
Dixi te, Coracine, cunnilingum.

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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.