Social Commentaries
Book XII, Epigram 103: Ad Milonem
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
Th'art wont to sell clothes, incense, pretious stone,
Cloaks, pepper, silver, bought away th' are gone:
Thy wife's a better chaffer: Though oft sold
She never doth forsake thee, or loose hold.
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Martial. “Book XII, Epigram 103: Ad Milonem.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/300/.
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Martial. “Book XII, Epigram 103: Ad Milonem.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/300/.
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