Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 1 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
While Janus shall lend winters to the year, Domitianus autumns, Augustus summers; while the great day of the Germanic Kalends shall claim a mighty name from the subservient Rhine; while the Tarpeian rock of the Sire Supreme shall stand; while, suppliant with prayer, and with incense, the matron shall propitiate the fair deity of Julia now divine: the towering glory of the Flavian race shall endure, coeternal with sun and stars, and with the light that shines on Rome. Whatever an unconquered arm has founded, that is of Heaven!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 1 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1068/.
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