Nil recitas et vis, Mamerce, poeta videri:
quidquid vis esto, dummodo nil recites.
Source: Martial 2.88
Meter: elegiac
nil - nothing
recito - recite, read aloud
et - and
volo - want, wish, will
Mamercus - personal name
poeta - poet
video - see; videor - seem
quidquid - whatever
sum - be, exist
dummodo - so long as, provided that
