Social Commentaries
Book XII, Epigram 83 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Fabianus, who derided hernia, whom of late all lewd fellows dreaded, when he inveighed against swelling ruptures in tones even two Catulluses could not match, suddenly beheld himself — wretched fellow! — in Nero's warm baths, and began to hold his tongue.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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