Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 46 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Gellius is always building: now he lays down thresholds, now he fits keys to doors and buys bolts, now these, now those windows he repairs and alters; provided only he be building, Gellius does anything whatever, that to a friend who asks for money he may be able to say that one word: "Building."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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