Social Commentaries
Book II, Epigram 56: Ad Gallum de ejus uxore
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
In Lybia thy wife they stigmatize
With the foule crime of too much avarice.
But they are lyes they tell: she is not wont
To take, but give for scouring of her—.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 56: Ad Gallum de ejus uxore.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/51/.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 56: Ad Gallum de ejus uxore.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/51/.
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