Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 33 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Although you possess bookcases crammed with books, arduously compiled, why, Sosibianus, do you send forth nothing? "My heirs," you say, "will publish my lays." When, oh, when? 'Tis already high time, Sosibianus, you should be read.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 33 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/665/.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 33 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/665/.
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