Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 46 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Kisses I reject save those I have ravished from reluctance, and your anger pleases me more than your face; so I often beat you, Diadumenus, to make myself solicit you often. I achieve this: you neither fear nor love me.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 46 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/765/.
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