Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 60 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Whether thou wert born in fields of Paestum or of Tibur, or the soil of Tuscuhim blushed with thy flower; or a farmer's wife culled thee in a garden at Praeneste, or thou wert erewhile the glory of Campanian meads; that thou mayst seem to my Sabinus a chaplet the more fair, let him think thou art from my Nomentan farm.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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