Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 76 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
That guardian of a sacred life, of Mars in the civil gown, he to whom our great captain's camp was given in trust, here Fuscus lies. This, Fortune, may we confess: that stone fears no longer a foeman's threat. The Daciaii has taken on his bowed neck our mighty yoke, and the victor ghost holds in fee the subject grove.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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