Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 61 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Verona loves the syllables of her learned bard, Mantua is blest in Maro. The land of Aponus is apprised by its Livy, and by Stella, by Flaccus no less; the flooding Nile applauds Apollodorus; Pelignians are loud in Naso's praise. The two Senecas and matchless Lucan eloquent Corduba proclaims; laughing Gades delights in her Canius, Emerita in my Decianus. Of you, Licinianus, shall our Bilbilis boast, nor of me shall she be silent.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 61 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/397/.
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