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