Social Commentaries

Book X, Epigram 67: Epitaphium vetulae

by Martial c. 40–c. 104

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

Social Commentaries

Here Pyrrha's Daughter, Nestor's Mother in Law,
Whom youthful Noibe in gray hairs saw,
Whom old Laertes did his Beldame name,
Great Priam's Nurse, Thyestes wive's grandam,
Surviver to all nine lived Dawes are gone,
Old
lotia with her bald Melanthion
Lyes itching here at last under this stone.

MLA

Martial. “Book X, Epigram 67: Epitaphium vetulae.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/231/.

Chicago

Martial. “Book X, Epigram 67: Epitaphium vetulae.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/231/.

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