# Epigrammaton Libri 5.53

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 5.53. Latin.

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Colchida quid scribis, quid scribis, amice, Thyesten?
quo tibi uel Nioben, Basse, uel Andromachen?
Materia est, mihi crede, tuis aptissima chartis
Deucalion uel, si non placet hic, Phaethon.

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