# Epigrammata 5.44

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 5.44. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/5.44

Quid factum est, rogo, quid repente factum,
Ad cenam mihi, Dento, quod vocanti—
Quis credat?—quater ausus es negare?
Sed nec respicis et fugis sequentem,
Quem thermis modo quaerere et theatris
Et conclavibus omnibus solebas.
Sic est, captus es unctiore mensa
Et maior rapuit canem culina.
Iam te, sed cito, cognitum et relictum
Cum fastidierit popina dives,
Antiquae venies ad ossa cenae.

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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.