Social Commentaries
Book XII, Epigram 98 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Baetis, with thy hair wreathed with the olive crown, that dippest thy golden fleeces in sparkling waters, whom Bromius, whom Pallas loves, to whom the king of waters, Albula, opens a path that wafts the ships over the seas, with glad omens may Instantius first tread thy shores, and this year pass for the peoples as the last. He is not blind to the burthen of succeeding Macer: he that gauges his load can bear it.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book XII, Epigram 98 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1446/.
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