Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 30 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
No dole is given; you recline an unbought guest at dinner: tell me, what do you, Gargilianus, at Rome? Whence comes your poor toga and the rent of your grimy garret? Whence is provided the farthing? whence the support of Chione your mistress? You may say that you live with the most reasonable economy: your living at all is unreasonable.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 30 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/570/.
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