Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 6 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
While the eagle was bearing the boy through the airs of heaven, its burden clung unscathed to those timorous talons: now their natural prey bewitches Caesar's lions, and safely the hare gambols in their monstrous jaws. Which think you the greater miracle? To each belongs a supreme Cause: this is Caesar's miracle, that Jove's.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 6 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/342/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 6 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/342/.
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