Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 85: De Quicinali
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
Sly Quicinalis cares not much to wed,
Yet would partake the off-spring of the bed,
But yet what trick? what custom is't he uses?
Most certain he his chamber-maids abuses.
So stocks his house and feilds: how truly he
Is calld the Father of his familie?
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 85: De Quicinali.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/27/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 85: De Quicinali.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/27/.
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