Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 4 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Myrtale is wont to reek with much wine, but, to mislead us, she devours laurel leaves and mixes her neat liquor with this artful frond, not with water. As often as you see her, Paulus, flushed and with swollen veins, coming to meet you, you can say: "Myrtale has drunk the laurel."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 4 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/723/.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 4 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/723/.
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