Social Commentaries
Book VIII, Epigram 61 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Charinus is green with envy, is bursting, raging, weeping, and is looking out for high boughs to hang himself from; not now because I am acclaimed and read through the whole world, nor because, smart with bosses and cedar oil, I am spread abroad over all the nations Rome sways, but because I have in the suburbs a summer country house, and am drawn by mules no longer, as before, hired. What curse shall I utter, Severus, on his green looks? I wish
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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