Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 7 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Farewell now, ye hundred wretched farthings, the largess of the jaded escort, ye whom the parboiled bath-man parcelled out. What think ye, my famished friends? The doles of a haughty patron are gone. "No wriggling serves; at once he must give a salary."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 7 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/547/.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 7 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/547/.
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