# Epigrammaton Libri 9.20

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 9.20. Latin.

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Haec, quae tota patet tegiturque et marmore et auro,
infantis domini conscia terra fuit,
felix o, quantis sonuit vagitibus et quas
vidit reptantis sustinuitque manus:
hic steterat veneranda domus quae praestitit orbi
quod Rhodos astrifero, quod pia Creta polo.
Curetes texere Iovem crepitantibus annis,
semiviri poterant qualia ferre Phryges:
at te protexit superum pater et tibi, Caesar,
pro iaculo et parma fulmen et aegis erat.

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