Epigrammata

M. Valerius Martialis

Argiletanas mavis habitare tabernas,

cum tibi, parve liber, scrinia nostra vacent?

Would you rather live in the shops of Argiletum, when my boxes have room for you, small book?

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from M. Valerius Martialis: Volume I. Spectacles, Books 1-5, Loeb Classical Library Vol. 94, translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1993, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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