Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 76 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You are ardent for old women, you show disgust, Bassus, for girls; it is not the beautiful, but the moribund attracts you. Is not this, I ask, frenzy, is not this amorous madness? Although you can woo Hecuba, Andromache you cannot!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 76 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/612/.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 76 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/612/.
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