Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 53 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
On your birthday, Quintus, I was wishing to give you a small present; you forbid me; you are an imperious person! I must obey your monition. Let be done what both of us wish, and what pleases both. Do you, Quintus, make vie a present!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 53 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1118/.
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