And such repentance would have been
A good, outweighing far the sin.
I chose this humbleness divine,
Born out of fault, should not be thine;
Preferring prayers elate with pride,
To sin with penitence allied.”
Epigrams.
MARTIAL’S EPIGRAM ON EPIGRAMS.
Omnis epigramma, sit instar apis; sit aculeus illi,
Sint sua mella, sit et corporis exigui.