Social Commentaries
Book VIII, Epigram 17 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
I have pleaded your case, Sextus, for an agreed fee of two thousand sesterces. What is the reason you have sent me one thousand? "You set out none of the facts," you remark, "and by you my case was ruined." You owe me all the more, Sextus; I blushed.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book VIII, Epigram 17 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1002/.
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Martial. “Book VIII, Epigram 17 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1002/.
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