Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 57 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Do you ask, Flaccus, what sort of girl I like or dislike? I dislike one too yielding, and one too coy. That middle type between the two I approve: I like not that which racks me, nor like I that which cloys.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 57 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/393/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 57 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/393/.
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