Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 40 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
No woman could once be preferred to you, Lycoris, no woman can be preferred to Glycera now; she shall be the thing you are; you cannot be what she is. Such is the might of Time! I long for her, for you I longed.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 40 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/840/.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 40 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/840/.
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