Social Commentaries
Book XI, Epigram 86 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
To soothe your throat, which a racking cough incessantly afflicts, Parthenopaeus, your doctor prescribes honey, and nuts, and sweet cakes, and whatever thing stops the fractiousness of boys. Yet all and every day you don't cease coughing. This is no cough, Parthenopaeus: it is gluttony.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book XI, Epigram 86 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1335/.
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