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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.

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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
MARTIAL

Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
MARTIAL

Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARTIAL

Man Virtue World
Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIAL

One Liner Praise Reading
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MARTIAL

Ash Glory Late
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
MARTIAL

Original Position Yourself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIAL

Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Spare the person but lash the vice.
MARTIAL

One Liner Person Vice
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.
MARTIAL

Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
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.
MARTIAL

Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL

Finding Quick Sudden
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIAL

Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
MARTIAL

Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself

Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.

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