Social Commentaries
Book VIII, Epigram 57: De Picente
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
Old Picens had three teeth which from him come
As he sat coughing hard over his Tombe:
Which fragments he tooke up into his brest
Dropd from his mouth: Then laid his bones to rest.
Least that his Heire should not them safely se
Interr'd: He did himself the curtesie.
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Martial. “Book VIII, Epigram 57: De Picente.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/197/.
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Martial. “Book VIII, Epigram 57: De Picente.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/197/.
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