# Epigrammaton Libri 11.5

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 11.5. Latin.

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Tanta tibi est recti reverentia, Caesar, at aequi
quanta Numae fuerat: sed Numa pauper erat.
ardua res haec est, opibus non tradere mores
et, cum tot Croesos viceris, esse Numam.
Si redeant veteres, ingentia nomina, patres,
Elysium liceat si vacuare nemus,
te colet invictus pro libertate Camillus,
aurum Fabricius te tribuente vo]et;
te duce gaudebit Brutus, tibi Sulla cruentus
imperium tradet, cum positurus erit;
et te privato cum Caesare Magnus amabit,
donabit totas et tibi Crassus opes.
Ipse quoque infernis revocatus Ditis ab umbris
si Cato reddatur, Caesarianus erit.

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