Social Commentaries
Book II, Epigram 67 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you immediately cry out — and this is your first remark — "How d'ye do?" This if you meet me ten times in a single hour you say. You have, I think, Postumus, nothing "to do."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 67 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/515/.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 67 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/515/.
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