Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 32: De Morte, Othonis
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
Whiles yet Bellona doubts the warlike doom,
And softer Otho might have overcome,
He stops the costly charge of blood in War,
And by his sword fals his own murderer.
He liv'd a Cato, more than Caesar too,
Yet dying, how like Otho he did doe?
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 32: De Morte, Othonis.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/135/.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 32: De Morte, Othonis.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/135/.
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