Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 84 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Quirinalis does not think he should take a wife, meanwhile he wishes to have sons; and he has discovered how to secure that object: he has relations with maid-servants, and fills his town-house and his country-place with home-born slave-knights. A genuine "father of a family" is Quirinalis.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 84 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/420/.
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