Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 17 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
CiNNAMus, you bid us address you as Cinna. Is not this, I ask, Cinna, a barbarism? If you had been called Furius before, you would, on that principle, be called Fur.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 17 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/820/.
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