# Epigrammaton Libri 8.81

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 8.81. Latin.

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Non per mystica sacra Dindymenes
nec per Niliacae bouem iuuencae,
nullos denique per deos deasque
iurat Gellia, sed per uniones.
Hos amplectitur, hos perosculatur,
hos fratres uocat, hos uocat sorores,
hos natis amat acrius duobus.
His si quo careat misella casu,
uicturam negat esse se nec horam.
Eheu, quam bene nunc, Papiriane,
Annaei faceret manus Sereni!

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