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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM: ON A POOR MAN OF EXTRAVAGANT HABITS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poet's Biography
First Line: Such lavish purchases, my giddy-friend
Last Line: Who buys so much will soon have all to sell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Saving And Thrift
First Line: Such lavish purchases, my giddy-friend
Last Line: Who buys so much will soon have all to sell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Saving And Thrift
SUCH lavish purchases, my giddy friend,
To thoughtful minds an auction-sale portend;
It needs no prophet, surely, to foretell,
Who buys so much will soon have all to sell!
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