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 Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer 
these yourself, and let him have your money.  
 Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer 
these yourself, and let him have your money. 
 What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole,
 Its body brevity, and wit its soul.  
 What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole,
 Its body brevity, and wit its soul. 
 If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in 
temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus read more 
 If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in 
temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask 
the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would 
freeze the warm baths of Nero. 
 See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you 
would expect it to fall; it read more 
 See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you 
would expect it to fall; it is merely showing its contempt for 
the dogs. 
 What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss,
 And that with thee no other odour is?
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 What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss,
 And that with thee no other odour is?
  'Tis doubt, my Postumus, he that doth smell
   So sweetly always, smells not very well. 
 Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you 
might bathe your feet in a cornucopia.  
 Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you 
might bathe your feet in a cornucopia. 
 And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then, 
Flaccus, I suspect you can see what read more 
 And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then, 
Flaccus, I suspect you can see what is invisible. 
 "You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, 
Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Choerilus, is read more 
 "You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, 
Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Choerilus, is indeed a 
free speaker. 
 You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What 
can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian read more 
 You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What 
can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey to 
be produced, and yet offer the Attic bee nothing but Corsican 
thyme?