Social Commentaries
Book XII, Epigram 25 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
When I ask you for money without security, "I haven't any," you say; all the same, if my little farm pledge itself on my behalf, you have. The credit you will not give me, your old comrade, Telesinus, do you give my cabbages and trees } See, Carus has informed against you: let my little farm appear for you; you ask for a companion in exile: let my little farm go with you.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book XII, Epigram 25 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1379/.
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Martial. “Book XII, Epigram 25 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1379/.
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