Social Commentaries
Book II, Epigram 72 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
A thing is said to have been done at dinner last night, Postumus, which I should deprecate — for who could approve such doings? — it is said that your face was mauled, and by an assault even noisier than when Latinus smacks the beggarly cheeks of Panniculus; and — what is more wonderful — it is Caecilius whom as author of this outrage rumour proclaims all over the city. You say this was not done; do you wish me to believe this? I believe it. What if Caecilius has witnesses, Postumus?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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