Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 17 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
While you were recalling your great grandfathers, and their grandfathers, and the mighty names of your ancestors; while a knight like me is a poor match for you; while you said, Gellia, that you could not marry except a broad stripe, you married, Gellia, a box-bearer!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 17 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/736/.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 17 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/736/.
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