Social Commentaries
Book XIII, 3 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
The whole collection of Mottoes in this slender little volume will cost you to buy four sesterces. Is four too much. it can cost you two, and bookseller Tryphon would make his profit. These distichs you can send to your guests instead of a gift, if a coin shall be as rare with you as with me. In addition you will get the names of the things on the headings: pass it by if anything is not to your stomach.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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