Pluto turns away the dead rhetorician Marcus, saying,
"Let the dog Cerberus suffice us here;
yet if thou needs must, declaim to Ixion
and Melito the song-writer, and Tityus;
for I have no worse evil than thee,
till Rufus the critic comes to murder the language here."
Gaius Lucilius (c. 180 – 103/02 BC) Italy (ancient Rome)
Translated by J. W. Mackail
Source: Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. Mackail, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890
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