Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 93 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Why linger, boy, to pour in the undying Falernian? Double three measures from the older jar. Now tell me who shall it be of the Gods to whom I bid thee, Calocissus, pour six measures . "Caesar it shall be." Let the stitched rose be ten times fitted to our locks, that he be shown who laid the noble temple of his hallowed race. Now give me twice five kisses to shape the name he brought from the Thracian world.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 93 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1155/.
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