Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 32 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
"Can I love an old woman?" you ask me, Matronia. I can even an old woman; but you are a corpse, not an old woman. I can love Hecuba, I can Niobe, Matronia, but only if the one is not yet a bitch, the other not yet a stone.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 32 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/572/.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 32 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/572/.
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