# Epigrammaton Libri 8.8

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 8.8. Latin.

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Principium des, Iane, licet uelocibus annis
et renoues uoltu saecula longa tuo,
te primum pia tura rogent, te uota salutent,
purpura te felix, te colat omnis honos;
tu tamen hoc mauis, Latiae quod contigit urbi
mense tuo reducem, Iane, uidere deum.

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