Social Commentaries

Book I, Epigram 55: Ad Fuscum

by Martial c. 40–c. 104

Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)

Social Commentaries

If any room (my Fuscus) yet there be
Voyd in thy Love; for here and there we see
Thy freinds abound, one place I doe implore,
Nor me reject because unknown before,
Thy antientest familiars were as new,
When first thy parts their apt affection drew,
O let my later love this boon obtain,
To be embraced in the elder strain.

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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 55: Ad Fuscum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/18/.

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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 55: Ad Fuscum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/18/.

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