# Epigrammaton Libri 1.51

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 1.51. Latin.

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Non facit ad saeuos ceruix, nisi prima, leones:
quid fugis hos dentes, ambitiose lepus?
Scilicet a magnis ad te descendere tauris
et quae non cernunt frangere colla uelis.
Desperanda tibi est ingentis gloria fati:
non potes hoc tenuis praeda sub hoste mori.

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