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Marcus Valerius Martialis (March, between 38 and 41 CE–between 102 and 104 CE) was born at Bilbilis, a small town in the north-east of Spain (Hispania). He is commonly known in the English speaking world as Martial.
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Fortune to many gives too much, enough to none.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
To the ashes of the dead, glory comes too late.
He does not write whose verses no one reads.
They praise those works, but read these.
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Divided the work will thus become brief.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
He grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
I, a parrot, am taught by you the names of others; I have learned of myself to say, "Hail! Cæsar!"
The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun:
A cook should double one sense have: for he
The mode of death is sadder than death itself.
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Our page (i.e. our book) has reference to man.
Thais has black, Læcania white teeth; what is the reason? Thais has her own, Læcania bought ones.
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."
And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then, Flaccus, I suspect you can see what is invisible.
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
"You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Chœrilus. He who speaks against you, Chœrilus, is indeed a free speaker.
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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