Social Commentaries
Book XI, Epigram 65 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
A crowd of guests dine at your invitation, Justinus, to celebrate the day of your birth. Among them, I recollect, I used not to be the last, and this place was not begrudged me. But to-morrow you repeat the festive ceremony: for the crowd you are born to-day, to-morrow you shall be born for me.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book XI, Epigram 65 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1318/.
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Martial. “Book XI, Epigram 65 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1318/.
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