C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Tertium Quid

By Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.)

WHEN poets, croaking hoarse with cold,

To spout their verses seek,

They show at once they cannot hold

Their tongues, yet cannot speak.

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