Social Commentaries

Book X, Epigram 23 (Ker)

by Martial c. 40–c. 104

Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)

Social Commentaries

Now in his placid age happy Antonius Primus reckons fifteen Olympiads gone, and he looks back upon past days and the vista of his years, and fears not Lethe's wave now drawing nigh. No day, as he reviews it, is unwelcome and distressing to him, none has there been he would not wish to recall, A good man" widens for himself his age's span; he lives twice who can find delight in life bygone.

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Martial. “Book X, Epigram 23 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1186/.

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