Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 105 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
The new wine, Ovidius, that is born in Nomentan fields, oft as it has taken upon it length of days, by hoary age puts off its nature and its name, and when old the jar is called by whatever name it chooses.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 105 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/441/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 105 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/441/.
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