Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 54 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
If, Fuscus, you have still any room for love — for you have friends on this side, friends on that — a single niche, if one remains, I ask. Nor should you reject me because I am a "new" friend; all your old friends were that once. Look only for this in the new friend — is he worthy to become an old comrade?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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