Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 60 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Seek ye Ardea in summer's heat, and the fields of Castrum, and meads scorched by Cleonae's star, seeing that Curiatius condemns Tibur's air; from amid waters so belauded was he sent to Styx. In no spot canst thou shut out fate; when death comes even in Tibur's midst is a Sardinia.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 60 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/690/.
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