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Heathcote William Garrod, comp. (1878–1960). The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. 1912.

M. Furius Bibaculus fl. 70 B.C.

The Reward of the Scholar

CATONIS modo, Galle, Tusculanum

tota creditor urbe uenditabat.

mirati sumus unicum magistrum,

summum grammaticum, optumum poetam

omnes soluere posse quaestiones,

unum deficere expedire nomen:

en cor Zenodoti, en iecur Cratetis!