Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 66 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
When you have a wife beautiful, modest, young, what is the use to you, Fabullus, of the rights ' three sons bestow? What you suppliantly ask of our Lord and God you will yourself supply — if you can play the man.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 66 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1131/.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 66 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1131/.
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