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Updated: April 30, 2025
The verses of Virgil, while he was yet living, were claimed by an impostor; and a certain Fidentinus mendaciously usurped the works of Martial, whom Martial thus deservedly rebuked: "The book you read is, Fidentinus! mine, Though read so badly, 't well may pass for thine!"
A certain Fidentinus once stole the work of the Roman poet Martial, and read it out to the assembly as his own; whereupon Martial wrote this epigram, The book you read is, Fidentinus, mine, Tho' read so badly, it well may pass for thine. But even apart from such bad taste as the aforementioned translator's, I do not like to see portraits of living authors in their books.
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