# Epigrammata 5.30

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 5.30. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/5.30

Varro, Sophocleo non infitiande coturno,
Nec minus in Calabra suspiciende lyra,
Differ opus, nec te facundi scaena Catulli
Detineat, cultis aut elegia comis;
Sed lege fumoso non aspernanda Decembri
Carmina, mittuntur quae tibi mense suo:
Commodius nisi forte tibi potiusque videtur,
Saturnalicias perdere, Varro, nuces.

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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.