Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 17 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
You wish in vain. Muse, to defraud Macer of his Saturnalian tribute: it can't be; he himself asks for it, and he claims the customary jokes and no melancholy poems, and complains that my flippancies have become dumb. But at present he has time to look at the long reports of his surveyors. Appian Way, what will you do if Macer reads these poems .''
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book X, Epigram 17 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1180/.
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