# Epigrammaton Libri 4.31

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 4.31. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/martial/epigrammaton-libri/4.31

Quod cupis in nostris dicique legique libellis
et nonnullus honos creditur iste tibi,
ne ualeam si non res est gratissima nobis
et uolo te chartis inseruisse meis.
Sed tu nomen habes auerso fonte sororum
inpositum, mater quod tibi dura dedit;
quod nec Melpomene, quod nec Polyhymnia possit
nec pia cum Phoebo dicere Calliope.
Ergo aliquod gratum Musis tibi nomen adopta:
non semper belle dicitur "Hippodame".

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