Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 33 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
I prefer one free-born, yet if she be denied me, a freedwoman's quality is next in worth to me. In the last rank is the servant-maid; yet she shall surpass either of the others if her face be to me that of a free-born maid.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 33 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/573/.
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