# Epigrammata 7.39

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 7.39. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/7.39

Discursus varios vagumque mane
Et fastus et have potentiorum
Cum perferre patique iam negaret,
Coepit fingere Caelius podagram.
Quam dum volt nimis adprobare veram
Et sanas linit obligatque plantas
Inceditque gradu laborioso,
—Quantum cura potest et ars doloris!—
Desi=t fingere Caelius podagram.

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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.