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MARTIAL. BOOK X.
Epig. VIII. Of Paulla.
Paulla would marry me, she is too old;
Yet were she not so young, the match should hold.
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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- 1663.
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Epig. XLIII. To Phileros.
Now in thy field seven Wives buried are;
What ground than thine a better crop doth bear?
Epig. LIV. Upon Olus.
Your Feast still cover'd is: I, Olus, sure,
If this be one, a Feast can make, though poor.
Epig. LXXXIV. Of Afer to Caecilianus.
Reason why Afer sleeps not you would know;
Caecilianus, mind his Bed-fellow.
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MARTIAL. LIBER X.
Epig. VIII. De Paulla.
Nubere Paulla cupit nobis, ego ducere
Paullam
Nolo: anus est; vellem si magis esset anus.
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Epig. XLIII. Ad Philerotem.
Septima jam, Phileros, ìibi conditur uxor in agro.
Plus nulli, Phileros, quàm tibi reddit ager.
Epig. LIV. In Olum.
Mensas, Ole, bonas ponis: sed ponis opertas.
Ridiculum est possum sic ego habere bonas.
Epig. LXXXIV. De Afro, ad Caecilianum:
Miraris, quare dormitum non eat Afer?
Accumbat cum qua Caeciliane vides.