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LXVI


Erras, meorum fur avare librorum,
Fieri poetam posse qui putas tanti,
Scriptura quanti constet et tomus vilis:
Non sex paratur aut decem sophos nummis.
5Secreta quaere carmina et rudes curas,
Quas novit unus scrinioque signatas
Custodit ipse virginis pater chartae,
Quae trita duro non inhorruit mento.
Mutare dominum non potest liber notus.
10Sed pumicata fronte si quis est nondum
Nec umbilicis cultus atque membrana,
Mercare: tales habeo; nec sciet quisquam.
Aliena quisquis recitat et petit famam,
Non emere librum, sed silentium debet.

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

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