Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 6 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You desire to be thought chaster than a pure virgin, and to win the semblance of bashful mien. Yet you are more dissolute, Malisianus, than the man who recites in Stella's house poems composed in the metre of Tibullus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 6 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/638/.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 6 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/638/.
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