Social Commentaries
Book XIII, 64: The Same (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
In vain the hen submits to her sterile husband. This bird it beseemed to have been the bird of Mother Cybele. LX V. — Partridges This bird is very rarely served on Italian tables: one often sees it playing in the fishpond.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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