Social Commentaries
Book II, Epigram 85 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
A flask enclosed in light wicker-work, and pre-serving water boiled and iced, this shall be your present at Saturn's season. If you complain that I have sent you the gift of summer in the month of December, do you send me a thin, smooth toga.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 85 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/532/.
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Martial. “Book II, Epigram 85 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/532/.
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