Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 64 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
PoLLA,' queen of women, if you shall handle my little volumes, with no frowning look greet my jests. He, your own bard, the glory of our Helicon, although on Pierian trump he made resound wild wars, yet did not blush to write in playful verse: "If I am not a Ganymede, Cotta, what do I here?"
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book X, Epigram 64 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1226/.
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Martial. “Book X, Epigram 64 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1226/.
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