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Uxor, vade foras, aut moribus utere nostris:
Non sum ego nec Curius nec Numa nec Tatius.
Me iucunda iuvant tractae per pocula noctes:
Tu properas pota surgere tristis aqua.
5Tu tenebris gaudes: me ludere teste lucerna
Et iuvat admissa rumpere luce latus.
Fascia te tunicaeque obscuraque pallia celant:
At mihi nulla satis nuda puella iacet.
Basia me capiunt blandas imitata columbas:
10Tu mihi das, aviae qualia mane soles.
Nec motu dignaris opus nec voce iuvare
Nec digitis, tamquam tura merumque pares:
Masturbabantur Phrygii post ostia servi,
Hectoreo quotiens sederat uxor equo,
15Et quamvis 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
20Pocula Iuno fuit pro Ganymede Iovi.
Si te delectat gravitas, Lucretia toto
Sis licet usque die: Lai+da nocte volo.

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

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