Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 12 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Were Autumn to give me my name, Oporinus should I be, or if rough winter's sky, Chimerinos; named after summer's month, to you I should be called Therinos: who is he to whom spring's season has given his name?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 12 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1079/.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 12 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1079/.
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