Martial

“Divisum sic breve fiet opus.”

“You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.”

“Laudant illa sed ista legunt.”

“The bee enclosed and through the amber shownSeems buried in the juice which was his own.”

“Nullos esse deos, inane caelum Adfirmat Segius: probatque, quod se Factum, dum negat haec, videt beatum.”

“Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane; Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.”

“Simpliciter pateat vitium fortasse pusillum:Quod tegitur, magnum creditur esse malum”

“Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux: Sit nox cum somno: sit sine lite dies.”

“Turpe est difficiles habere nugas, Et stultus labor est ineptiarum.”

“Ride, si sapis.”

“I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee.”

“Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris et dant convivam balnea sola tibi mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses: iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.”

“You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.”

“Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.”

“Cineri gloria sera venit.”

“Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’:Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.”

“Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.”