Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 74 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Camonius' picture preserves but the image of a child, and only an infant's tiny form survives. On the face of manhood's bloom a father stamped no semblance: his love feared to see the lips that spake no more.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 74 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1137/.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 74 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1137/.
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