Quem recitās meus est, ō Fīdentīne, libellus;
sed male cum recitās, incipit esse tuus.
Martial 1.38
libellus, libellī, m. — liber parvus
male — badly (adv. of malus, -a, -um)
Exempla antiqua
Classical and Medieval Latin examples for learners
Funerary Altar of Tiberius Claudius Nicomacus
Marble altar. ca. 1st c. AD. 17 x 14 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Arthur Burkhard. 1963.49.
DIS MANIB
TI CLAVDIO
NICOMACO
ARAM FECIT
SIBI
Dīs Mānib(us), Ti(beriō) Claudiō Nicomacō āram fēcit sibi.