Social Commentaries
Book I, Epigram 111 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Since the fame of your scholarship is as great as your allegiance to the gods, your piety no less than your genius, he knows not how to reward merit who wonders that a book, and who wonders, Regulus, that incense is given to you.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 111 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/447/.
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Martial. “Book I, Epigram 111 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/447/.
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