Social Commentaries
Book VIII, Epigram 46: Ad Cestum Puerum
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
How sweet's thy vertue, and thy shape to us?
Cestus my Boy, chast as Hippolitus!
Diana's self may teach, and swim with thee,
More wish'd then Phrygus by old Cybele.
Thou mayst succeed Ganymede in his place,
And unsuspected Smug the Thund'rer's face.
O happy she shall climbe thy tender bed!
And make thee man first for a maiden head!
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Martial. “Book VIII, Epigram 46: Ad Cestum Puerum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/192/.
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Martial. “Book VIII, Epigram 46: Ad Cestum Puerum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/192/.
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