Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 99 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You should not be angry, cobbler, at my book. It was your trade, not your character, that was wounded by my verse. Allow harmless witticisms. Why may not I be permitted to jest, if you have been permitted to cut throats?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 99 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/631/.
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