Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 15 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
When you asked me yesterday to lend you a thousand sesterces on six or seven days' credit, Caecilianus, "I haven't got them," I said; yet you, on the pretext of a friend's arrival, ask me for a dish and a few vases. Are you a fool, or do you think me a fool, my friend? I refused you a thousand sesterces; shall I give five thousand?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 15 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/647/.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 15 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/647/.
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