Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 28 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
You have given, Chloe, to young Lupercus cloaks of Spanish wool dyed with Tyrian purple and with scarlet, and a toga dipt in the mild Galesus, Indian sardonyxes, Scythian emeralds, and a hundred sovereigns of new-minted money, and whatever he asks you give over and over again. Woe to you, enamoured of smooth-skinned boys, woe to you, wretched woman! Your Lupercus I will leave you naked.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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