Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 52 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
If you believe me, Quintus Ovidius/ the kalends of your natal April I love — 'tis your desert — as much as my own of March. Happy is either morn! and days are thev to be marked by us with fairer stones. One gave me life, but the other a friend. Your kalends, Quintus, give me the more.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 52 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1117/.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 52 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1117/.
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