# Epigrammaton Libri 7.51

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 7.51. Latin.

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Mercari nostras si te piget, Vrbice, nugas
et lasciua tamen carmina nosse libet,
Pompeium quaeres — et nosti forsitan — Auctum;
Vltoris prima Martis in aede sedet:
iure madens uarioque togae limatus in usu
non lector meus hic, Vrbice, sed liber est.
Sic tenet absentes nostros cantatque libellos
ut pereat chartis littera nulla meis:
denique, si uellet, poterat scripsisse uideri;
sed famae mauult ille fauere meae.
Hunc licet a decuma — neque enim satis ante uacabit —
sollicites, capiet cenula parua duos;
ille leget, bibe tu; nolis licet, ille sonabit:
et cum "Iam satis est" dixeris, ille leget.

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