Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 34: Ad Diadumenum
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
Seale me squeez'd kisses (Diadumene)
How many? count the Billows of the Sea,
Or spread Cockles on th' Aegaean shore,
Or wandring Bees in the Cecropian store,
Or th' hands and voices in the Theatre
When Rome salutes her suddain Emperor:
I slight how many courted Lesbia gave
Catullus: he that numbers, few would have.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 34: Ad Diadumenum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/136/.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 34: Ad Diadumenum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/136/.
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