You feign youth
Martial, Epigrams III, 43
You feign youth, Laetinus, with your dyed hair
So suddenly you are a raven, but just now you were a swan.
You do not deceive anybody. Proserpina knows you are grey-haired;
She will remove the mask from your head.
Martial pulls Laetinus' leg because of the habit of dying his hair, imported from the Orient and badly considered in Rome.
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