# Epigrammata 9.7

Martial, Epigrammata, Poem 9.7. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammata/9.7

Tamquam parva foret sexus iniuria nostri
Foedandos populo prostituisse mares,
Iam cunae lenonis erant, ut ab ubere raptus
Sordida vagitu posceret aera puer:
Inmatura dabant infandas corpora poenas.
Non tulit Ausonius talia monstra pater,
Idem qui teneris nuper succurrit ephebis,
Ne faceret steriles saeva libido viros.
Dilexere prius pueri iuvenesque senesque,
At nunc infantes te quoque, Caesar, amant.

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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.