# Epigrammaton Libri 5.48

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 5.48. Latin.

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Quid non cogit amor! Secuit nolente capillos
Encolpos domino, non prohibente tamen.
Permisit fleuitque Pudens: sic cessit habenis
audaci questus de Phaethonte pater;
talis raptus Hylas, talis deprensus Achilles
deposuit gaudens, matre dolente, comas.
Sed tu ne propera - breuibus ne crede capillis -
tardaque pro tanto munere, barba, ueni.

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