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Martial


Marcus Valerius Martialis was born sometime around 40 A D at Bilbilis, a small town in the north-east of Spain.
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Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est
Vivere bis vita posse priore frui.
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Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.
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Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.




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Ride, si sapis.
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Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
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Nullos esse deos, inane caelum
Adfirmat Segius: probatque, quod se
Factum, dum negat haec, videt beatum.
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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown
Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee.
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The mode of death is sadder than death itself.
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Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris
et dant convivam balnea sola tibi
mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses:
iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.
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Laudant illa sed ista legunt.




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Difficilis facilis iucundus acerbus es idem:
Nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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He who refuses nothing... will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Accipe quam primum; brevis est occasio lucri.
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Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
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Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores.
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Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’:
Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
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Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis; Nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus.


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