Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 13 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
While you are unwilling to carve your fish, while you are unwilling to carve your fowls, and spare, Naevia, your boar although more than high, you rate and cut up your cook, saying he sent up everything crude. Mine will be no "crude surfeit" on these terms.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 13 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/553/.
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