Social Commentaries
Book XI, Epigram 47 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Why does Lattara avoid all the baths affected by crowds of women? that he may not be tempted. Why does he not idly stroll in the shade of Pompey's Porch/ nor resort to the threshold of the daughter of Inachus? that he may not be tempted. Why does he plunge in the cold Virgin water his body yellow with Lacedaemonian ointment? that he may not be tempted. Seeing that he so avoids the contagion of the generation of women, why is Lattara a woman's .'' That he may not be tempted.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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