Social Commentaries

Book V, Epigram 14 (Ker)

by Martial c. 40–c. 104

Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)

Social Commentaries

Accustomed always to sit in the front row in days when to seize a place was lawful, Nanneius was twice and thrice roused up and shifted camp, and sat down right between the seats, making almost a third behind Gaius and Lucius. Thence with his head buried in a cowl he peers out, and views the show indecently with one eye. Expelled even from here, the wretched fellow passes into the gangway, and, half propped up at the end of a bench and allowed small room, with one knee pretends to the knight by him that he is sitting, with the other to Leitus that he is standing.

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