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AD M. T.
CICERONEM.
CATUL EP. 50.
Disertissime Romuli
nepotum,
Quot sunt, quotque fuere, Marce Tulli,
Quotque post alios erunt in annos,
Gratias tibi
maximas Catullus
Agit, pessimus omnium poeta:
Tanto pessimus omnium poeta,
Quanto tu optimus omnium
patronus.
TO MARCUS T. CICERO.
IN AN ENGLISH
PENTASTICK.
Tully to thee, Rome's eloquent sole
heir,
The best of all that are, shall be, and were,
I the worst poet send my best thanks and pray'r:
Ev'n
by how much the worst of poets I,
By so much you the
best of patrones be.
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