Social Commentaries
On the Spectacles, 19 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
A bull that but now, goaded by fire through the Arena's length, had seized and flung the dummies skyward, fell at length, countered by a fiery tusk, while he deemed that with like ease an elephant might be tossed.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “On the Spectacles, 19 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/322/.
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