Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 53 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Why write of the Colchian dame/ why write, my friend, of Thyestes? What does it avail you, Bassus, to write of Niobe or Andromache? The fittest matter, believe me, for those sheets of yours is Deucalion, or — if he doesn't please you — Phaethon.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 53 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/772/.
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Martial. “Book V, Epigram 53 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/772/.
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