Social Commentaries
Book II, Epigram 70 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You are unwilling that anyone should wash in the bath before you, Cotilus. What reason is there but this, that you be not touched by polluted waters? Be first then in the bath, but needs must be that your - - is washed here before your head.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 70 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/518/.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 70 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/518/.
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