Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 2 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Alone among all the rest the other day, Horatius viewed the show in a black cloak, although the common people and the lower and the highest orders, together with our hallowed Chief, sat in white. From every door of heaven snow suddenly fell: it is in a white cloak now that Horatius looks on.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 2 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/634/.
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