Social Commentaries
Book II, Epigram 7 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
You declaim nicely; you plead causes, Atticus, nicely; you write nice histories, nice poems. You compose nicely mimes, epigrams nicely; you are a nice litterateur, a nice astronomer, and you sing nicely and dance nicely, Atticus; you are a nice performer on the lyre, you are a nice player at ball. Seeing that you do nothing well, yet do everything nicely, would you have me describe you? You are a great dabbler.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 7 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/461/.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 7 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/461/.
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