Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 102 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You return me, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; rather give me on loan, Phoebus, a hundred thousand. Look out for some one else to whom you may boast of so empty a gift; what can't pay you, Phoebus, is my own.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 102 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1164/.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 102 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1164/.
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