Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 4 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Greatest of censors and Prince of Princes, albeit she already owes thee so many triumphs, so many temples rising, so many renewed, so many spectacles, so many gods, so many cities — yet more Rome owes thee, in that she is chaste.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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