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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1663.
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MARTIALIS. LIBER XIV APOPHORETA.
Epig. XII. Loculi eborei.
Hos nisi de flava loculos implere monetâNon decet; argentum vilia ligna ferant.
Epig. XVI. Turricula.
Quae scit compositos manus improba mittere talos,Si per me misit, nil nisi vota facit.
Epig. XXXIV. Falx ex ense.
Pax me certa ducis placidos curvavit in usus.Agricolae nune sum, militis ante sui.
Epig. XLIV. Candelabrum ligneum.
Esse vides lign••••um: serves nisi lumina sietDe candetabro magna lucerna tibi.
Epig. LXXIII. Psittacus.
Psittacus à vobis aliorum nomina discam:Hoc didici per me dicere, Caesar, ave.
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Epig. LXXV.
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Epig. LXXVI. Pica.
Pica loquax certa dominum te voce saluto:Si me non videas, esse negabis avem.
Epig. LXXXIX. Mensa citrea.
Accipe felices Atlantica munera sylvas:Aurea qui dederit dona, minora dabit.
Epig. CXI. Chrystallina.
Frangere dum metuis, frangis chrystallina: peccantSecurae nimium, solicitaeque manus.
Epig. CXXXIII. Lacernae Baeticae.
Non est lana mihi mendax, nec mutor aëno:Si placeant Tyriae, me mea tinxit ovis.
CXLVII. Cubicularia gausapina.
Stragula purpureis lucent villosa tapetis;Quid prodest, si te congelat uxor anus?
Epig. CLXII. Foenum.
Fraudata tumeat facilis tibi culcita pluma;Non venit ad duros pallidá cura toros.