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Book V, Epigram 5 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Sextus, eloquent votary of Palatine Minerva, you who enjoy more near the genius of the god — for you are permitted to learn our lord's cares as they are born, and to know our chief's secret heart — let there, I pray, be found also for my little books somewhere a niche where Pedo, where Marsus, and where Catullus shall be set. By the song divine of the Capitoline war place the grand work of buskined Maro.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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