# Epigrammaton Libri 6.30

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 6.30. Latin.

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Sex sestertia si statim dedisses,
cum dixti mihi "Sume, tolle, dono,"
deberem tibi, Paete, pro ducentis.
At nunc cum dederis diu moratus,
post septem, puto, uel nouem Kalendas,
uis dicam tibi ueriora ueris?
Sex sestertia, Paete, perdidisti.

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