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		<title>Martial -- Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book  3, epigram  61 (3.61) (AD 87-88) [tr. Hay (1755)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Tis a mere nothing that you ask, you cry: If you ask nothing, nothing I deny. [Esse nihil dicis quidquid petis, inprobe Cinna: Si nil, Cinna, petis, nil tibi, Cinna, nego.] &#8220;To Cinna.&#8221; (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: What so&#8217;ere you coggingly require, &#8216;Tis nothing (Cinna) still you cry: Then Cinna you have your desire, If [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Tis a mere nothing that you ask, you cry:<br />
If you ask nothing, nothing I deny.</p>
<p><em>[Esse nihil dicis quidquid petis, inprobe Cinna:<br />
Si nil, Cinna, petis, nil tibi, Cinna, nego.]</em></p>
<br><b>Martial</b> (AD c.39-c.103) Spanish Roman poet, satirist, epigrammatist [Marcus Valerius Martialis]<br><i>Epigrams [Epigrammata]</i>, Book  3, epigram  61 (3.61) (AD 87-88) [tr. Hay (1755)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Select_Epigrams_of_Martial/guUNAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22meer%20nothing%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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"To Cinna." (<a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi1294.phi002.perseus-lat1:3.61">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>What so'ere you coggingly require,<br>
<span class="tab">'Tis nothing (Cinna) still you cry:<br>
Then Cinna you have your desire,<br>
<span class="tab">If you aske nought, nought I deny.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialinenglish00mart/page/24/mode/2up?q=coggingly">Davison</a> (1602)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Whate'er you ask, 'tis nothing, still you cry:<br>
If nothing, Cinna, nothing I'll deny.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Martial/LzXgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22nothing%20still%22">Wright</a> (1663)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>'Tis a mere nothing, Cinna, still you cry.<br>
If nothing you demand, I nought deny.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_M_Val_Martial/vksOAAAAQAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22mere%20nothing%22">Elphinston</a> (1782), Book 12, ep. 76]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Whatever favour you ask, presuming Cinna, you call it nothing: if you ask for nothing, Cinna, I refuse you nothing.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book03.htm#:~:text=Whatever%20favour%20you%20ask%2C%20presuming%20Cinna%2C%20you%20call%20it%20nothing%3A%20if%20you%20ask%20for%20nothing%2C%20Cinna%2C%20I%20refuse%20you%20nothing.">Bohn's Classical</a> (1859)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Your importunity to mask,<br>
<span class="tab">"'Tis a mere nothing," still you cry.<br>
Since nothing, Cinna, 'tis you ask,<br>
<span class="tab">Then nothing, Cinna, I deny.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/selectedepigrams00martrich/page/34/mode/2up?q=%22mere+nothing%22">Webb</a> (1879)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>"It's nothing," is a phrase that you<br>
<span class="tab">To favors oft apply.<br>
You're sure it's nothing that you want?<br>
<span class="tab">Then nothing I'll deny.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/romanwitepigrams00mart/page/24/mode/2up?q=cinna">Nixon</a> (1911)]</blockquote> <br>

<blockquote>"'Tis nothing," you say, whatever you ask, importunate Cinna. If you ask "nothing," Cinna, nothing I deny you, Cinna.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams/w4ZfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22nothing%20i%20deny%22">Ker</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Your impudent demands to mask,<br>
<span class="tab">You always say that what you ask<br>
Is -- nothing -- but, if that be true,<br>
<span class="tab">What I refuse is nothing too.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialtwelveboo0000tran/page/92/mode/2up?q=%22impudent+demands%22">Pott & Wright</a> (1921)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Of your importunate request you cry<br>
"'Tis nothing!" Nothing, Cinna, I deny.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martial_s_Epigrams/g35fAAAAMAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22importunate%20requesrt%22">Francis & Tatum</a> (1924), #150]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Cinna, Cinna, you cynic, you say<br>
it's nothing to ask, nothing at all.<br>
So I suppose I'm not refusing anything, either.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/epigramsofmartia0000mart_q2h6/page/144/mode/2up?q=%22it%27s+nothing%22">Bovie</a> (1970)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Unconscionable Cinna, whatever you ask for, you say it's nothing. Cinna, if you ask for nothing, nothing, Cinna, do I refuse you.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://dokumen.pub/martial-epigrams-spectacles-books-1-5-1-0674995554-9780674995550.html#:~:text=Unconscionable%20Cinna%2C%20whatever%20you%20ask%20for%2C%20you%20say%20it%27s%20nothing.%20Cinna%2C%20ifyou%20ask%20for%20nothing%2C%20nothing%2C%20Cinna%2C%20do%20I%20refuse%20you.">Shackleton Bailey</a> (1993)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>"It's nothing," whatever <br>
<span class="tab">you beg for. If that's true, <br>
it must be the very <br>
<span class="tab">nothing I'd deny you.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/selectedpoemstra00matt/page/136/mode/2up?q=%22it%27s+nothing+whatever%22">Matthews</a> (1992)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>Since "only a mere nothing" you request,<br>
You'll get it -- for that nothing, be my guest.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martial_s_Epigrams/13X80r3_zQIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=3.61">Wills</a> (2007)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Whatever you ask for, Cinna, you say<br>
<span class="tab">"Oh, it's nothing!"<br>
Well, if it's nothing you ask for, Cinna,<br>
<span class="tab">it's nothing I refuse.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialart0000kenn/page/34/mode/2up?q=cinna">Kennelly</a> (2008), "Nothing"]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Vile Cinna, you ask for "nothing" -- so say you.<br>
If that's true, I deny you nothing, too.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/selectedepigrams0000mart_b6d3/page/28/mode/2up?q=%22ask+for+nothing%22">McLean</a> (2014)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Adams, Douglas -- Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide No. 1, The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy, ch. 33 (1979)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For a moment, nothing happened.  Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.</p>
<br><b>Douglas Adams</b> (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter<br>Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide No. 1, <i>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy</i>, ch. 33 (1979) 
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