Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 15 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
This, Augustus, is my fifth 'book of jests, and no man complains as being wounded by my verse; nay, many a reader rejoices in an honoured name, to whom, by bounty of mine, is given undying fame. "Yet what profit is there in these poems, however much they pay homage to many?" Let profit, in truth, be none, yet those poems are at least my delight.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 15 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/734/.
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