Martial, : the twelve books of Epigrams,.

BOOK ELEVEN
CIV
VXOR, uade foras aut moribus utere nostris:
Non sum ego nec Curius nec Numa nec Tatius.
Me iucunda iuuant tractae per pocula noctes:
Tu properas pota surgere tristis aqua.
Tu tenebris gaudes: me ludere teste lucerna
Et iuuat admissa rumpere luce latus.
Fascia te tunicaeque obscuraque pallia celant:
At mihi nulla satis nuda puella iacet.
Basia me capiunt blandas imitata columbas:
Tu mihi das auiae qualia mane soles.
Nec motu dignaris opus nec uoce iuuare
Nec digitis, tamquam tura merumque pares:
Masturbabantur Phrygii post ostia semi,
Hectoreo quotiens sederat uxor equo,
Et quamuis Ithaco stertente pudica solebat
Illic Penelope semper habere manum.
Pedicare negas: dabat hoc Cornelia Graccho,
Iulia Pompeio, Porcia, Brute, tibi;
Dulcia Dardanio nondum miscente ministro
Pocula, Iuno fuit pro Ganymede Ioui.
Si te delectat grauitas, Lucretia toto
Sis licet usque die; Laida nocte uolo.
* CV
TO GARRICUS
YOUR present last year weighed exactly a pound,
But I see it's a quarter to-day:
Your system of reckoning's very unsound;
At least, sir, a half you should pay.
CVI
TO VIBIUS MAXIMUS
IF you have leisure, glance at this quatrain;
You busy men shirk labour when you can,
So skip the rest and I shall not complain;
You skip this too? That is the wiser plan.
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