Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 53 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Andraooras bathed With us, took a cheerful dinner, and nevertheless was found in the morning dead. Do you ask, Faustinus, the cause of a decease so sudden? He had in a dream seen Doctor Hermocrates!
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 53 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/853/.
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