Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 87 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Your Bassa, Fabullus, constantly sets an infant by her side and calls it her plaything and her darling, and yet — that you may wonder the more — she is not partial to infants. So what is the reason? Bassa is apt to break wind.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 87 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/717/.
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