# Epigrammaton Libri 8.17

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 8.17. Latin.

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Egi, Sexte, tuam pactus duo milia causam:
misisti nummos quod mihi mille quid est?
"Narrasti nihil" inquis "et a te perdita causa est."
Tanto plus debes, Sexte, quod erubui.

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