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X	A
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Woe to the house whose mistress was a slave	B
So say old saws my own in aid I crave	B
Woe to the court whose judge once spake for fees	C
Though he were readier than Isocrates	C
An advocate that pleaded once for pelf	B
Scarce on the bench forgets his former self	B
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Palladas	C
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XI	C
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This Olympicus of old	D
Had Sebastus I am told	D
Quite his share of upper gear	E
Nose and chin and eye and ear	F
All he lost and by his fist	G
He became a pugilist	G
Loss of members with it drew	H
Loss of patrimony too	H
When his birthright he would claim	I
Into court his brother came	I
With a portrait saying Thus	C
Looked the old Olympicus	C
None could any likeness see	C
Disinherited was he	C
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Lucillus	C
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XI	C
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A pig a goat an ox I lost	J
I want them back at any cost	K
And so retained O woful fate	L
Menecles for my advocate	M
But tell me will you what have these	C
In common with Othryades	C
The heroes of Thermopyl	N
Have nought to do with theft from me	C
Against Eutychides I bring	O
My action for a trivial thing	O
Let Xerxes rest a little space	C
And leave the Spartans in their place	C
For if you don't put all this by	P
I'll go into the streets and cry	P
The voice of Menecles is big	Q
But what about my stolen pig	Q
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Lucillus	C
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This Epigram is probably an imitation of that of Martial on p	C
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XI	C
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Pluto rejected at his gate	L
The soul of Mark the advocate	M
No Cerberus my dog quoth he	C
Will make you pleasant company	C
But if within you needs must go	R
Practise on poet Melito	R
And you shall have if he won't do	H
Tityus and Ixion too	H
You'll be to hell the sorest ill	N
Of all that hell contains until	N
There come to us worse barbarisms	C
When Rufus speaks his solecisms	C
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Lucillus	C
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XI	C
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So soon hath Asiaticus	C
The gift of eloquence achieved	S
It was in Thebes it happened thus	C
The story well may be believed	S
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Ammianus	C
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XI	C
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The statue of an advocate as like as like can be	C
And why The statue cannot speak a word no more could he	C
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Anon	C
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XI	C
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Paul dost thou wish to make thy boy	T
An advocate like these his betters	C
Then let him not his time employ	T
To useless ends in learning letters	C
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Ammianus	C
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XI	C
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The parties were as deaf as deaf could be	C
The judge was far the deafest of the three	C
Said plaintiff Sir I ask for five months' rent	U
Defendant Grinding corn all night I spent	U
Why quoth the judge dispute Your mother's claim	I
Is good and you must both support the dame	I
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Nicarchus	C
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XI	C
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Remember justice and her yoke and know	C
That 'gainst the wicked votes of Guilty go	C
Thou trustest in thy cunning speech thy power	V
Of speaking words that vary with the hour	V
Hope what thou wilt thy trifling tricks are vain	C
Thou canst not make the path of law less plain	C
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Agathias	C
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XI	C
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Once to Diodorus came a client in a state of doubt	W
And to that most learned counsel thus he set the matter out	W
Alpha Beta found a slave girl who had run away from me	C
To a slave of his he wed her though she was my property	C
Well he knew she was my chattel she has had a child or two	H
Now I cannot tell for certain whose the children are can you	H
Diodorus thought consulted all authorities on Slave	B
To his client turned his furrowed brows and slowly answer gave	B
'Tis to you or to the other who you say has done you wrong	X
That the children of the handmaid rightfully of course belong	X
Your best plan will be the matter in the proper court to place	C
So you'll get a good opinion whether you have any case	C
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Agathias	C
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PLAN	C
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Good Hermes only just one cabbage plant	Y
Stop stop my thieving traveller you can't	Y
What grudge me one poor cabbage is it so	C
Nay I don't grudge it but the law says no	C
The law says Keep your itching palms d'ye see	C
From meddling with another's property	C
Well this beats anything I ever saw	C
Hermes against a thief invokes the law	C
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Philippus	C
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APPENDIX	C
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Pupils seven of Aristides	C
Tell me how are ye	C
Four of you are walls beside is	C
Nought but benches three	C
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Another Version	C
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Seven pupils of the rhetor	C
Aristides how are ye	C
Seven Hoc et nihil pr ter	C
Four are walls and benches three	C
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Anon	C
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MARTIAL	N
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In Caium	C
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Lend me sestertia Caius only twenty	C
'Tis no great thing for you who roll in plenty	C
He was an old companion and his coffers	C
Were full enough to stand such friendly offers	C
Go plead in court said he 'tis pleadings pay us	C
I want your money not your counsel Caius	C
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Martial ii	Z
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In Causidicum	C
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'Tis said that some bold advocate	M
Has dared to criticise my poem	C
His name I have not learned his fate	L
Will be a warning when I know him	C
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Martial v	C
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In Postumum Causidicum	C
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No claim for trespass do I bring	O
Or homicide or poisoning	O
I claim that by my neighbour's theft	A2
Of she goats three I was bereft	A2
The judge of course wants evidence	C
But you go wandering far from thence	C
And with a mighty voice declaim	C
Of Mithridates and the shame	C
Of Cann and the lies of old	D
That Punic politicians told	D
And why should you pass Sylla by	P
The Marii and Mucii	C
When Postumus d'ye hope to reach	B2
My stolen she goats in your speech	B2
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Martial vi	P
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In Cinnam	C
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Is this advocacy Cinna this a type of lawyers' powers	C
This immense oration Cinna some nine words in some ten hours	C
Waterclocks I grant you asked for Cinna yes you called for four	C
There you stopped such wealth of silence Cinna ne'er was seen before	C
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Martial viii	P