Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 75 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
When you send me either a fieldfare, or a section of cake, or a leg of hare, or something similar, you tell me, Pontia, you have sent me your tit-bits. These dainties I won't send elsewhere, Pontia — but neither will I eat them.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 75 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/872/.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 75 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/872/.
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