Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 37 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Your bowels' load — and you are not ashamed — you receive in a golden vessel — unhappy urn! Bassus, you drink out of crystal; therefore your evacuations are the more costly.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 37 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/373/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 37 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/373/.
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