Social Commentaries
Book XI, Epigram 35 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Although you invite three hundred guests unknown to me, you wonder why, when invited, I dont come to you, and you com:)lain and quarrel with me. 'Tis no pleasure to me, Fabullus, to dine alone.
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Martial. “Book XI, Epigram 35 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1293/.
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