Chapter 41HerbL.2.41
Ad Eundem (Epigr. XXXVIII)
The End of the Charade
The poet dismisses his opponent's escalating hostility as a hollow performance.
You start with mockery, continue with resentment in your verse, and end with a shout: goodbye to the whole charade.
Read the original Latin
Incipis irridens; stomachans in carmine pergis; Desinis exclamans: tota figura vale.
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