“If glory comes after death, I hurry not.”

— Martial , book Epigrammata

V, 10 (trans. Zachariah Rush).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

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Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.

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Martial 31

Latin poet from Hispania 40–104

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