# Epigrammaton Libri 7.12

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 7.12. Latin.

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Sic me fronte legat dominus, Faustine, serena
excipiatque meos qua solet aure iocos,
ut mea nec iuste quos odit pagina laesit
et mihi de nullo fama rubore placet.
Quid prodest, cupiant cum quidam nostra uideri,
si qua Lycambeo sanguine tela madent,
uipereumque uomat nostro sub nomine uirus,
qui Phoebi radios ferre diemque negat?
ludimus innocui: scis hoc bene: iuro potentis
per genium famae Castaliumque gregem
perque tuas aures, magni mihi numinis instar,
lector inhumana liber ab inuidia.

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