Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 45 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
You have had your fling: enough! Wed, you wantons; you are allowed only chaste love. Is this chaste love? Laetoria weds Lygdus: she will be viler as wife than she was just now as adulteress.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 45 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/845/.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 45 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/845/.
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