Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 49 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Althouoh you drink from cups of amethyst and are drenched with dark Opimian, you give me to drink Sabine just laid down, and say to me, Cotta: "Will you drink in gold?" Does any man wish to drink leaden wines in gold?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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