Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 62 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Chaste, and not inferior to the old-world Sabines, straiter-laced, too, than her husband in his sternest mood, Laevina, while she entrusted herself, now to the Lucrine lake and now to Avernus, and was oft refreshed by the waters of Baiae, fell into flames. She went after a youth, leaving a husband: she arrived a Penelope and departed a Helen!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 62 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/398/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 62 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/398/.
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