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Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book 3, epigram 33 (3.44) (AD 87-88) [tr. Pott & Wright (1921)] - Martial | WIST Quotations
At your approach the neighbours flee, What is the cause that makes them flout you. And that wherever you may be A desert seems to spread about you? A tigress of her whelps bereft May fill the bravest heart with terror; Untouched the basking snake is left And handling scorpions…