Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 66 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
A girl of not too good a reputation, one of such as sit in the middle of the Subura, the auctioneer Gellianus was lately selling. As for some time she was going for small biddings, wishing to prove to all that she was clean, he drew the unwilling girl to him, and twice, thrice, four times kissed her. Do you ask what he achieved by the kiss? A bidder of six hundred sesterces withdrew his bid!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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