# Epigrammaton Libri 4.23

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 4.23. Latin.

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Dum tu lenta nimis diuque quaeris
quis primus tibi quisue sit secundus,
Graium quos epigramma conparauit,
palmam Callimachus, Thalia, de se
facundo dedit ipse Bruttiano.
Qui si Cecropio satur lepore
Romanae sale luserit Mineruae,
ille me facias, precor, secundum.

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