Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 27 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
The wit, and the taste, and the manners, and the birth that fit a knight are yours, I grant: the rest is plebeian. A place in the fourteen rows should not seem to you worth having if you have to turn pale in your seat at the sight of Oceanus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 27 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/746/.
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