Martial, : the twelve books of Epigrams,.

MARTIAL'S EPIGRAMS
LXI
LINGUA maritus, moechus ore Nanneius,
Summemmianis inquinatior buccis;
Quem cum fenestra uidit a Suburana
Obscena nudum Leda, fornicem cludit
Mediumque mauult basiare quam summum;
Modo qui per omnes uiscerum tubos ibat
Et uoce certa consciaque dicebat
Puer an puella matris esset in uentre,
(Gaudete cunni; uestra namque res acta est)
Arrigere linguam non potest fututricem.
Nam dum tumenti mersus haeret in uolua
Et uagientes intus audit infantes,
Partem gulosam soluit indecens morbus.
Nec purus esse nunc potest nec inpurus.
LXII
BOUGHT PLEASURES
SHE never gives herself for love? No doubt.
She has to buy her loves or do without!
LXIII
SPECTAS nos Philomuse cum lauamur,
Et quare tibi tam mutuniati
Sint leves pueri subinde quaeris.
Dicam simpliciter tibi roganti:
Pedicant, Philomuse, curiosos.
LXIV
YES'
I KNOW not what you write to girls, and yetI know the answer that you never get.
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