If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
MARTIALIf I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
MARTIALThe bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIALIt is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MARTIALYour seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
MARTIALThe African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIALFrom no place can you exclude the fates.
MARTIALI seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIALFor life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIALIf my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
MARTIALThere is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
MARTIALI wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIALThe virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARTIALWhen your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIALEvery epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MARTIALTomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
MARTIALYou may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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