Social Commentaries

Book IV, Epigram 31: Ad Hyppodamum

by Martial c. 40–c. 104

Translated by R. Fletcher (1656) · From Ex Otio Negotium (1656)

Social Commentaries

Cause thou desirest to be read and named
So in my books, as by it to be famed,
Let me not live the thing much pleases mee,
And in my lines I would insert thee free,
But that thy name is so averse to all
The Muses, which thy Mother did thee call,
Which nor Melpom'ne, nor Poly'mnia may
Nor sweet Calliope with Phaebus say.
Adopt thee then some grateful name to us,
How wretchedly this sounds? Hyppodamus?

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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 31: Ad Hyppodamum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/87/.

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Martial. “Book IV, Epigram 31: Ad Hyppodamum.” Translated by R. Fletcher. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/87/.

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