Martial, 3.8
“Quintus Loves Thais, Which one? The One-eyd Thais.
She’s missing one eye but he’s lost two.”
Thaida Quintus amat. ‘quam Thaida?’ Thaida luscam.
unum oculum Thais non habet, ille duos.
3. 9
“Someone says Cinna writes little poems against me.
No one really writes if nobody reads their poems.”
Versiculos in me narratur scribere Cinna.
Non scribit, cuius carmina nemo legit.
Bonus Epigram from the Greek Anthology
11.252 Lucilius
“If you kiss me, you hate me. And if you hate me, you kiss me.
But if you don’t hate me, dearest friend, don’t kiss me!”
Εἴ με φιλεῖς, μισεῖς με· καὶ εἰ μισεῖς, σὺ φιλεῖς με·
εἰ δέ με μὴ μισεῖς, φίλτατε, μή με φίλει.
