Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 22 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You had expended, Apicius, twice thirty millions on your gorging, and still there remained to you a full ten millions. This you scorned to endure, as mere hunger and thirst, and, as the last draught of all, quaffed poison. You never did anything, Apicius, more gluttonous!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 22 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/562/.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 22 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/562/.
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