Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 51: Ad Luperlum
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
Cause thou dost feast so often without mee
Luperlus, I have found a plague for thee.
Though thou dost importune, and send, and call,
I'le shew a seeming anger over all.
And when thou sayst, what wilt thou? doe in summ
What will I doe? I am resolv'd to come.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 51: Ad Luperlum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/141/.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 51: Ad Luperlum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/141/.
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