# Epigrammaton Libri 6.50

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 6.50. Latin.

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Cum coleret puros pauper Telesinus amicos,
errabat gelida sordidus in togula:
obscenos ex quo coepit curare cinaedos,
argentum, mensas, praedia solus emit.
Vis fieri diues, Bitynice? Conscius esto.
Nil tibi uel minimum basia pura dabunt.

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