Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 10 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Although you gladly dine abroad, Cantharus, you bawl and abuse and thi'eaten people. Discard such truculent spirits, I warn you; you can't be both independent and a glutton.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 10 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1077/.
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