# Epigrammaton Libri 9.73

Martial, Epigrammaton Libri, Poem 9.73. Latin.

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Dentibus antiquas solitus producere pelles
et mordere luto putre vetusque solum,
Praenestina tenes defuncti rura patroni,
in quibus indignor si tibi cella fuit;
rumpis et ardenti madidus crystalla Falerno
et pruris domini cum Ganymede tui.
at me litterulas stulti docuere parentes:
quid cum grammaticis rhetoribusque mihi?
Frange leves calamos et scinde, Thalia, libellos,
si dare sutori calceus ista potest.

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