Social Commentaries
Book II, Epigram 74 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Saufeius is surrounded behind and in front with gowned clients, a crowd as big as escorts Regulus home when he has sent the accused with trimmed hair to the temples of the high gods. Do you see him, Maternus? Don't envy him. May such a company, I pray, never be yours. These friends and troop of gowned clients 'tis Fuficulenus and Faventinus who provide.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 74 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/522/.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 74 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/522/.
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