Social Commentaries
Book XI, Epigram 53 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Though Claudia Rufina has sprung from the woad-stained Britons, how she possesses the feelings of the Latin race! What grace of form has she! Mothers of Italy may deem her Roman, those of Attica their own. May the Gods bless her in that she, a fertile wife, has borne children to her constant spouse, in that she hopes, though youthful still, for sons-and daughters-in-law. So may it please the Gods above she should joy in one mate alone, and joy ever in three sons!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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