Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 21 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Apollodotus the rhetorician, Regulus, used to greet Quintus for Decimus, Macer for Crassus; now he returns the greeting of each by his proper name. What power has care and labour! He wrote the names down and learned them by heart!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 21 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/740/.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 21 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/740/.
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