Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 93 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
If before me Clemens, you shall behold Helicaon's Euganean shores/ and the fields decked with vine-clad trelliseSj carry to Sabina of Atesta poems, unpublished as yet, and that too newly arrayed in purple wrapper. As the rose delights us that is first plucked by the finger, so a sheet pleases when 'tis new and unsoiled by the chin.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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