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Book VI, Epigram 43 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
While happy Baiae lavishes on you, Castricus, its bounty, and the Nymph's spring, white with sulphurous water, is your swimming-bath, the quiet of my Nomentan farm, and a small house not too large for its fields, recruit me. This to me is Baian sunshine and mild Lucrine lake; this to me is the riches, Castricus, you enjoy. Erewhile I gladly hurried everywhere to famous waters, and did not fear long journeys; now places near the city attract me, and quiet retreats easy to reach, and 'tis enough for me if I am allowed to be lazy.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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