Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 35 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Seven water-clocks' allowance you asked for in loud tones, and the judge, Caecilianus, unwillingly gave them. But you speak much and long, and, with back-tilted head, swill tepid water out of glass flasks. That you may once for all sate your oratory and your thirst, we beg you, Caecilianus, now to drink out of the water-clock.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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