# Epigrammaton Libri 8.24

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 8.24. Latin.

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Si quid forte petam timido gracilique libello,
inproba non fuerit si mea charta, dato.
Et si non dederis, Caesar, permitte rogari:
offendunt numquam tura precesque Iouem.
Qui fingit sacros auro uel marmore uultus,
non facit ille deos: qui rogat, ille facit.

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