Social Commentaries
Book III, Epigram 52: Ad Tongilianum
Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)
Social Commentaries
Thy house two hundred pounds (Tongilian) cost,
Which by a frequent chance of fire was lost:
Thy Brief rose ten times more: let me require
Was't not thy plot to set thy house on fire?
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 52: Ad Tongilianum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/67/.
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Martial. “Book III, Epigram 52: Ad Tongilianum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/67/.
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