Goodbye’s too good a word

Saepe salutatus, numquam prior ipse salutas: sic erit aeternum, Pontiliane, vale. Though often greeted, you are never the first to greet. So it shall be: Pontilianus, “farewell for ever”.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 5, LXVI
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker

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