Living
Epigram X. — The same Subject
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book XIX. — Epigrams of Ausonius on Various Matters
"With lips so fair and lips so dumb, wouldst know who I am?" "I would." "I am a figure of Rufus the Pictavian rhetorician." "Nay, I would have the rhetorician tell me this himself." "He cannot." "Why?" "The real rhetorician is an image of this image."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epigram X. — The same Subject.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/213/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Epigram X. — The same Subject.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/213/.
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