Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 1 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
This, my sixth book, is sent to you, Martial, dear to me above all men. If you, with a critic's careful ear, will emend it, it will venture with less anxiety and fear to pass into Caesar's mighty hands.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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