Social Commentaries
Book XI, Epigram 107 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You return rae my book unrolled to its very horns,i and as if, Septicianus, you had read it through. "You have read it all." I believe it, I know it, I am glad, what you say is true. I have read through your five books in the same way.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book XI, Epigram 107 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1353/.
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