Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 56 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
All day. Callus, you bid me serve you, and thrice, four times to mount your Aventine. Cascellius draws or stops the decayed tooth; the hairs that wound the eyes you, Hyginus, sear; without cutting Fannius heals a suppurating uvula; the degrading brands on slaves Eros obliterates; of hernia Hermes is held a very Podalirius. Who is there, Callus, to mend the ruptured?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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