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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"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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descriptionPage 66
Coelius Calcagnius.
To an old man using a staff.
And why this Staff? your legs, alone I know,Sufficient are Death's Pilgrimage to go.
A rule to live and dye well.
Learn well to live, so death will happy be:Learn well to dye, so you'l live happily.
Niobe.
The Carver makes not what the gods did do;Stone is the Life, and Stone th' Effigies too.
descriptionPage 68
Of the same.
The Gods from life transform'd me Stone in vain:Praxiteles doth give me life again.
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Caelius Calcagnius.
Ad senem baculo utentem.
Quid baculo moliris iter, quid te magis urgesAd mortem gemino nou satis ire pede?
Instructio ad mortem.
Ut tibi mors felix contingat, vivere disce:Ut felix possis vivere, disce mori.
Niobe.
Qualis eram me talem opifex effinxit, & olimMe lapidem factam, nune lapidem esse vides.
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In candem,
Vivam o'im in lapidem verterunt numina: sed mePraxiteles vivam reddidit ex lapide.
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