De Epigrammate (n.d.)

See introduction to d2_MaiT_029. Metre: elegiac couplets.

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De Epigrammate

Carmina festivo ni tanquam syrmate 1 claudas;
dicatur carmen, non epigramma tuum.

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On the Epigram

Do not conceal your poems, as if in a festive cloak; let an epigram say it, not your poem.

Notes:

Original

1: 'syrmate' likely taken from Martial, Epigrammata IV.49.8