Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 24 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You see that fellow with unkempt hair, Decianus, whose gloomy scowl you too fear, who prates of the Curii, and of the Camilli, champions of liberty? Don't credit his appearance; he was a bride yesterday.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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