Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 9 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Fabius has bequeathed you notliing, Bithynicus, he to whom, if I remember, you used to give six thousand sesterces a year. More he gave to no man; don't complain, Bithynicus: he has bequeathed you six thousand sesterces a year.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 9 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1076/.
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