# Epigrammaton Libri 1.39

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 1.39. Latin.

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Si quis erit raros inter numerandus amicos,
quales prisca fides famaque nouit anus,
si quis Cecropiae madidus Latiaeque Mineruae
artibus et uera simplicitate bonus,
si quis erit recti custos, mirator honesti
et nihil arcano qui roget ore deos,
si quis erit magnae subnixus robore mentis:
dispeream si non hic Decianus erit.

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