# Epigrammaton Libri 8.71

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 8.71. Latin.

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Quattuor argenti libras mihi tempore brumae
misisti ante annos, Postumiane, decem;
speranti plures (nam stare aut crescere debent
munera) uenerunt plusue minusue duae;
tertius et quartus multo inferiora tulerunt;
libra fuit quinto Septiciana quidem;
besalem ad scutulam sexto peruenimus anno;
Post hunc in cotula rasa selibra data est;
octauus ligulam misit sextante minorem;
nonus acu leuius uix cocleare tulit.
Quod mittat nobis decumus iam non habet annus:
quattuor ad libras, Postumiane, redi.

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