# Epigrammaton Libri 7.39

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 7.39. Latin.

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Discursus uarios uagumque mane
et fastus et haue potentiorum
cum perferre patique iam negaret,
coepit fingere Caelius podagram.
Quam dum uolt nimis adprobare ueram
et sanas linit obligatque plantas
inceditque gradu laborioso,
—quantum cura potest et ars doloris! —
desit fingere Caelius podagram.

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