Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 5 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
I have bought a country property at a tall price; I ask you, Caecilianus, to lend me a hundred thousand sesterces. You make me no answer? I fancy you say to yourself: "You won't repay them." That is why, Caecilianus, I ask.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 5 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/808/.
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