Sales epigrammatum being the choicest disticks of Martials fourteen books of epigrams, and of all the chief Latin poets that have writ in these two last centuries : together with Cato's Morality / made English by James Wright.
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Sales epigrammatum being the choicest disticks of Martials fourteen books of epigrams, and of all the chief Latin poets that have writ in these two last centuries : together with Cato's Morality / made English by James Wright.
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London :: Printed by T.R. for Christopher Eccleston ...,
1663.
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Latin poetry.
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"Sales epigrammatum being the choicest disticks of Martials fourteen books of epigrams, and of all the chief Latin poets that have writ in these two last centuries : together with Cato's Morality / made English by James Wright." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67161.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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MARTIALIS LIBER I.
Epigram XVII. Ad Avitum.
Sunt Bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala pluraQuae legis hic: aliter non fit, Avite, liber.
Epigram XXIX. De Acerra.
Hesterno foetere mero qui credit Acerram,Fallitur; in lucem semper Acerra bibit.
Epig. XXXIII. Ad Sabidium.
Non amo te Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare;Hoc tantum possum dicere, Non amo te.
Epig. XXXIX. Ad Fidentinum.
Quem recitas, meus est, ô Fidentine, libellus:Sed malè cùm recitas, incipit esse cuus.
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Epig. XLI. Ad Lividum.
Qui ducis vultus, & non legis ista libenter,Omnibus invideas, Livide, nemo tibi.
Epig. XLVIII. De Diaulo medico.
Nuper erat medicus, nunc est vespillo
Diaulus;Quod vespillo facit, fecerat & medicus.
Epig, LXXVI. De Lyno.
Dimidium donare Lino, quam credere totum,Qui mavult: mavult perdere dimidium.
Epig. XCII. Ad Laelium.
Cum tua non edas, carpis mea carmina, Laeli;Carpere vel noli nostra, vel ede tua.
Epig. XCVI. Ad Helium.
Quod clamas semper, quod agentibus obstrepis
Heli,Non facis hoc gratis: accipis, ut taceas.
Epig. XCIX. Ad Flaccum.
Litigat, & podagra Diodorus Flacce laborat;Sed nil patrono porrigit, haec chiragra est.
Epig. CI. De Afra vetula.
Mammas at que tatas habet Afra: sed ipsa tatarumDici & mammarum maxima mamma potest.
Epig. CXI. Ad Velocem.
Scribere me quereris, Velox, epigrammata longa;Ipse nihil scribis, tu breviora facis.
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Epig. CXIII. In Priscum.
Cum te non nossem, dominum regemque vocabam:Cum bent te novi, jam mihi Priscus eris.
Epig. CXIX. Ad Caecilianum.
Cui legisse sat is, non est epigrammata centum,Nil illi satis est, Caeciliane, mali.
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