Social Commentaries
Book IX, Epigram 5: In Aeschylum
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
When for two guilders Galla thou might'st swive,
And more then so if thou it double give:
Aeschylus why did she take ten of thee?
The feate's not worth it: what? the secresie.
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Martial. “Book IX, Epigram 5: In Aeschylum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/203/.
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