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

The Least of Evils

By Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.)

WHILE some with kisses Julia smothers,

Reluctant hand she gives to others:

Give me thy merest finger-tips,

Or anything—but not thy lips!