# Epigrammaton Libri 2.64

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 2.64. Latin.

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Dum modo causidicum, dum te modo rhetora fingis
et non decernis, Laure, quid esse uelis,
Peleos et Priami transit et Nestoris aetas
et fuerat serum iam tibi desinere.
Incipe, tres uno perierunt rhetores anno,
si quid habes animi, si quid in arte uales.
Si schola damnatur, fora litibus omnia feruent,
ipse potest fieri Marsua causidicus.
Heia age, rumpe moras: quo te sperabimus usque?
Dum quid sis dubitas, iam potes esse nihil.

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