Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 44 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Because a larger and a lesser page of mine presents the airy gambols of hares, and the lions' play, and twice I do the same thing — if this seem to you excessive, Stella, do you in turn serve up to me twice a dish of hare!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 44 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/380/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 44 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/380/.
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