Social Commentaries
Book II, Epigram 56 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Amongst Libyan tribes your wife, Gallus, has a bad reputation; they charge her foully with insatiate greed. But these stories are simply lies; she is not at all in the habit of receiving favours. What, then, is her habit? To give them.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 56 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/506/.
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