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LXXXIV


Qui nondum Stygias descendere quaerit ad umbras,
Tonsorem fugiat, si sapit, Antiochum.
Alba minus saevis lacerantur bracchia cultris,
Cum furit ad Phrygios enthea turba modos;
5Mitior inplicitas Alcon secat enterocelas
Fractaque fabrili dedolat ossa manu.
Tondeat hic inopes Cynicos et Stoica menta
Collaque pulverea nudet equina iuba.
Hic miserum Scythica sub rupe Promethea radat,
10Carnificem duro pectore poscet avem;
Ad matrem fugiet Pentheus, ad Maenadas Orpheus,
Antiochi tantum barbara tela sonent.
Haec quaecumque meo numeratis stigmata mento,
In vetuli pyctae qualia fronte sedent,
15Non iracundis fecit gravis unguibus uxor:
Antiochi ferrum est et scelerata manus.
Unus de cunctis animalibus hircus habet cor:
Barbatus vivit, ne ferat Antiochum.

M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammaton libri / recognovit W. Heraeus. Martial. Wilhelm Heraeus. Jacobus Borovskij. Leipzig. 1925/1976.

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