Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 32 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Her I wish for who is willing, who gads about in a mantilla, her I wish for who has already granted her favours to my slave; hw I wish for whom a second sixpence purchases altocretlier; her I wish for whose single self suffices three lovers at once. One who demands moneys and who talks in a big style, the stupid Gascon may possess.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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