Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 72 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You press me to give you my books, Quintus. I haven't any, but bookseller Tryphon has. "Shall I pay money for trifles," you say, "and buy your poems in my sober mind? I won't act so foolishly." Nor will I.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 72 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/702/.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 72 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/702/.
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