Social Commentaries
Book XII, Epigram 90 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
For his old friend, ill of a severe and burning semi-tertian fever, Maro — and aloud — made a vow that, if the sick man were not sent down to the Stygian shades, there should die a victim welcome to mighty Jove. The doctors begin to guarantee a certain recovery. Maro now makes vows not to pay his vow.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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