# Epigrammaton Libri 5.8

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 5.8. Latin.

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Edictum domini deique nostri,
quo subsellia certiora fiunt
et puros eques ordines recepit,
dum laudat modo Phasis in theatro,
Phasis purpureis rubens lacernis,
et iactat tumido superbus ore:
"Tandem commodius licet sedere,
nunc est reddita dignitas equestris;
turba non premimur, nec inquinamur":
haec et talia dum refert supinus,
illas purpureas et adrogantes
iussit surgere Leitus lacernas.

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