Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 65: Ad suos ministros
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
Callistus fill four cups of muscadine,
And in coole snow my boy dissolve the wine.
Let my moyst hair grow rich with perfume sweats,
And tyre my brows with rose-bud coronets.
The royal tombes commands us live: since they
Teach that the very gods themselves decay.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 65: Ad suos ministros.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/117/.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 65: Ad suos ministros.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/117/.
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