Social Commentaries
Book VIII, Epigram 68 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
He who has seen the orchards of Corcyra's king will prefer, Entellus, the country your house contains. That jealous winter may not sear the purple clusters, and chill frost consume the gifts of Bacchus, your vineyard blooms shut in transparent glass, and the fortunate grape is roofed and yet unhid. So shine a woman's limbs through silk, so is the pebble counted in pellucid water. What power has not Nature wished for mind? Barren winter is bidden to bear autumn's fruits.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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