Social Commentaries
Book XII, Epigram 10: De Africano
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
African has a thousand pound in store,
Yet he desires, and hunts, and rakes for more:
Fortune hath overmuch bestow'd on some;
But plenary content to none doth come.
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Martial. “Book XII, Epigram 10: De Africano.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/270/.
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