Social Commentaries
Book X, Epigram 94 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
No Massylian serpent guards my orchard, nor does the royal plantation of Alcinous serve my wants, but my garden burgeons in security with its Nomentan fruit-trees, and my poor fruits dread no thief. So I send you these yellow apples of my autumn crop, freshly grown — in the midst of the Subura.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book X, Epigram 94 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1251/.
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