Social Commentaries
Book XII, Epigram 93 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Labulla has discovered how to kiss her lover in the presence of her husband. She gives repeated kisses to her dwarf fool; this creature, slobbered with many kisses, the lover at once pounces upon, fills him up with his own kisses, and hands him back to the smiling lady. How much bigger as a fool is the husband!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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