Social Commentaries
On the Spectacles, 13 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Smit by a fatal spear, and pierced by the wound, the mother sow at once lost life and gave it. Oh, how sure was the hand with its poised steel! this, I ween, was Lucina's hand. Dying, the beast proved the deity of either Dian — of her that delivered the dam, and of her that slew the brute.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “On the Spectacles, 13 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/315/.
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Martial. “On the Spectacles, 13 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/315/.
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