Social Commentaries
Book XI, Epigram 76 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You compel me, Paetus, to pay you ten thousand sesterces because Bucco has lost you your two hundred thousand. Don't let offences not mine injure me, I pray: do you, who can endure to lose two hundred, lose ten.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book XI, Epigram 76 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1328/.
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