Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 79 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Eleven times during one dinner you got up, Zoilus, and your evening dress was changed eleven times, that sweat, kept in by your moist garb, should not cling to you, and a searching draught affect your opened pores. How is it that I don't sweat, who dine with you, Zoilus? Why, a single evening suit produces great coolness!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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