# Epigrammaton Libri 8.38

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 8.38. Latin.

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Qui praestat pietate pertinaci
sensuro bona liberalitatis,
captet forsitan aut uicem reposcat:
at si quis dare nomini relicto
post manes tumulumque perseuerat,
quaerit quid nisi parcius dolere?
Refert sis bonus an uelis uideri.
Praestas hoc, Melior, sciente fama,
qui sollemnibus anxius sepulti
nomen non sinis interire Blaesi.
et de munifica profusus arca
ad natalicium diem colendum
scribarum memori piaeque turbae
quod donas, facis ipse Blaesianum.
Hoc longum tibi, uita dum manebit,
hoc et post cineres erit tributum.

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