Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 74 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
He who lies the lowest on the middle couch, with his three-haired baldness laid out in paths with ointment, and who probes his loosened jaws with strips of mastich, is a fraud, Aefulanus: he has no teeth.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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