Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 33 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You have seen, Matho, nothing more miserable than the unnatural Sabellus, and yet once nothing was more cheerful than he. Thefts, flight, deaths of slaves, fires, griefs, afflict the fellow: now the miserable man actually runs after women!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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