Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book 5, epigram 73 (5.73) (AD 90) [tr. Pott & Wright (1921), "Return Favours"] - Martial | WIST Quotations
Why don't I send my book to you Although you often urge me to? The reason's good, for if I did You'd send me yours -- which God forbid! [Non donem tibi cur meos libellos Oranti totiens et exigenti, Miraris, Theodore? Magna causa est: Dones tu mihi ne tuos libellos.]…
