Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 22 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
In that you wed your paramour, Proculina, and make him, but now your leman, your husband, to avoid the brand of the Julian law, you are not wedding, Proculina, but confessing.
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