Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 34 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Jupiter laughed at the lying tale of his tomb on Ida as he looked on the Flavian temple of the Augustan heaven;' and amid the feast when now full steeped in nectar, as with his own hand he passed to Mars his son the beaker, looking back to Phoebus and Phoebus' sister side by side, with whom were Alcides and the leal Arcadian god, he said: "Ye have given me a monument at Gnossos: ye see how much more it is to be Caesar's sire!"
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 34 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1101/.
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