Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 30 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Had you given at once six thousand sesterces when you said to me, "Take them, off with them, I give them," I should be your debtor, Paetus, for two hundred thousand. But now you have given them after long delay, after seven, I think, or nine Kalends have gone, would you have me tell you what is truer than truth? You have lost your six thousand, Paetus.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 30 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/832/.
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