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Ausonius, Epigrams 5, 6, and 7 (Venal Flatterer Fridays)

5.

“For now, we have made you of marble, in accordance with the cost: but when Augustus the father returns, you shall be gold.”

Nunc te mamoreum pro sumtu fecimus: at cum

Augustus frater remeaverit, Aureus esto. 

6.

“The death which the lion suffers under a blow from such a tiny reed is not inflicted by the weapon, but the one who wields it.”

Quod leo tam tenui patitur sub arundine letum

non vires ferri, sed ferientis agunt.

7.

“Today, I shall be considered a woman fortunate beyond all others, whether I give birth to a god or a man.”

Ante omnes alias felix tamen hoc ego dicar:

sive deum peperi foemina, sive virum.

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