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EPIGRAM: ON A SLANDERER by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS

First Line: BEFORE YOUR MOUTH WAS FRINGED WITH HAIR
Last Line: OH FILTY TONGUE, YOU'D BETTER FAR %BE WHAT YOU WERE THAN WHAT YOU ARE
Subject(s): HOMOSEXUALITY;

Poem Sources:

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF HOMOSEXUAL VERSE.
  COOTE, STEPHEN (ED.)
  (1983)
 



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