Old Pros
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The Cheating Charioteer
"The four-horse chariot of the Blues,
When Catianus plies the whip,
Drops back--to win the bribe and lose
The race. Consummate jockeyship!"
Martial, The Epigrams, (85 AD).
(Translated by James Michie).
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