# Epigrammata 6.11

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 6.11. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/6.11

Quod non sit Pylades hoc tempore, non sit Orestes,
Miraris? Pylades, Marce, bibebat idem,
Nec melior panis turdusve dabatur Orestae,
Sed par atque eadem cena duobus erat.
Tu Lucrina voras, me pascit aquosa peloris:
Non minus ingenua est et mihi, Marce, gula.
Te Cadmea Tyros, me pinguis Gallia vestit:
Vis te purpureum, Marce, sagatus amem?
Ut praestem Pyladen, aliquis mihi praestet Oresten.
Hoc non fit verbis, Marce: ut ameris, ama.

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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.