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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIAL

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

Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
MARTIAL

Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Gifts are like hooks.
MARTIAL

Gift One Liner
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIAL

Deep Existence Live Man
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
MARTIAL

Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
MARTIAL

Day Ourselves Pass Score
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARTIAL

Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIAL

Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
MARTIAL

Form God Gold Himself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
MARTIAL

Friendship Master Service Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIAL

Leadership Myself Wife
One genius has made many clever artists.
MARTIAL

Artist Genius Oneself

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