Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 13 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
When chaste Arria was offering to her Paetus that sword which with her own hand she had drawn from out her breast: "If thou believest me," she said, "the wound I have inflicted has no smart; but the wound thou shalt inflict — this for me, Paetus, lias the smart."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 13 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/349/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 13 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/349/.
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