Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 16 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
If you call it bounty to promise and not to give, Gaius, I will surpass you by my bounties and offerings. Receive all wealth the Asturian mines in Gallician fields, all wealth rich Tagus' golden wave possesses, all the swarthy Indian discovers in Eastern seaweed, and all the solitary bird treasures in its nest, all Agenor's city, cheating Tyre, stores in her caldron. All wealth of all men receive — in your fashion of giving!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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