Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 65 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
"You make your epigram in hexameters," says Tucca, as I know. Tucca, that is usual, in fact, Tucca, it is allowable. "Yet this one is long." That too is usual, Tucca, and allowable; if you approve of what is shorter, read distichs only. Let us make a compact: you to be permitted to skip long epigrams; I, Tucca, to write them.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 65 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/864/.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 65 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/864/.
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