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EPIGRAM: 10, 97 by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS

First Line: WHILE KINDLING WAS STREWN ABOUT THE PYRE
Last Line: THEN NUMA WROTE ME DOWN AS HIS HEIR--AND PROMPTLY RECOVERED!

Poem Sources:

THE ANTIOCH REVIEW, V50#4, FALL /92.
  (1992)
 



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