"Quisquis venerit hue, poeta fiat, Et versus mihi deuicet iocosos; Qui non fecerit, inter eruditos Ficosissimus ambulet poeta. Tu quicunque vides circa tectoria nostra Non nimium casti carmina plena ioci;"
— Priapeia

January 1, 1970

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Whosoe'er comes hither must become a poet and dedicate to me some merry lines; whoe'er refuses, amidst the learned let him walk most wooden of poets. — Carmina 41.