Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 27 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
On your birthday, Diodorus, the Senate is your guest at dinner, and few are the knights not invited, and your dole lavishes thirty sesterces on each guest. Yet no one, Diodorus, imagines you had a father.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book X, Epigram 27 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1190/.
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Martial. “Book X, Epigram 27 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1190/.
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