Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 59 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
My dole at Baiae gives me a hundred farthings. What avails that starvation allowance amid luxury? Give me back the gloomy baths of Lupus and of Gryllus. Seeing that so badly I dine, why, Flaccus, sumptuously should I bathe?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 59 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/395/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 59 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/395/.
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