Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 1 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
If I seem too big a book and long, with my colophon delayed, read a few epigrams: I shall be a little book. Often a page of mine ends with a small poem: make me as short for yourself as you like.
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Martial. “Book X, Epigram 1 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1166/.
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Martial. “Book X, Epigram 1 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1166/.
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