Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 27 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Last night I said to you (I think it was after I had got through ten half-pints): "Dine with me to-day, Procillus." You at once thought the matter settled for you, and took secret note of my unsober remark — a precedent too dangerous! "I hate a messmate with a memory," Procillus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 27 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/363/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 27 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/363/.
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