"Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra."

The words are thus given in Grüter (

Corpus Inscriptionum

(1603), p. DCCCCXII. 10.

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[Footnote 2:]

Martial (xi. lii. 16),

Ad Julium Cerealem

:

"Plus ego polliceor: nil recitabo tibi."