Social Commentaries
On the Spectacles, 30 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
While a roused hind was flying from the swift Molossian hounds, and tangled the drawn-out chase by divers wiles, before Caesar's feet, suppliant and as in prayer, she stayed, and the hounds touched not their prey .... This boon she won for that she avowed her Prince! Power divine hath Caesar: sacred, sacred is this puissance. Believe it ye: beasts have not learned to lie.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “On the Spectacles, 30 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/334/.
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