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Is this pleading causes, Cinna? Is this speaking eloquently to say nine words in ten hours? Just now you asked with a loud voice for four more clepsydrae. What a long time you take to say nothing, Cinna!

Is this pleading causes, Cinna? Is this speaking eloquently to say nine words in ten hours? Just now you asked with a loud voice for four more clepsydrae. What a long time you take to say nothing, Cinna!

Approximate author period: c. 71 AD · classical

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Martial
Attribution: attributed
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Approximate author period: c. 71 AD · classical
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My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)

Page 183 · printed citation: Martial VIII, 7. · compiler notes excluded

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