Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 7 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Father, O Rhine, of Nymphs and of all rivers that drink the Thracian frosts, so mayst thou alway joy in limpid waters, and no insolent ox-driver's barbarous wain trample roughly on thy head; so mayst thou, with thy golden horns regained, and a Roman stream on either bank, flow on — send Trajan back to his peoples and to his city: so doth thy Lord Tiber entreat thee.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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