Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 81 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
When Fabulla had read my epigram in which I complain that no girl says "No," she, though solicited once, twice, and three times, disregarded her lover's prayers. Now promise, Fabulla: I bade you refuse, I did not bid you to refuse for ever.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 81 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/711/.
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