# Epigrammaton Libri 2.69

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 2.69. Latin.

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Inuitum cenare foris te, Classice, dicis:
si non mentiris, Classice, dispeream.
Ipse quoque ad cenam gaudebat Apicius ire:
cum cenaret, erat tristior ille, domi.
Si tamen inuitus uadis, cur, Classice, uadis?
'Cogor' ais: uerum est; cogitur et Selius.
En rogat ad cenam Melior te, Classice, rectam:
grandia uerba ubi sunt? Si uir es, ecce, nega.

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