Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 88 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
This morning I addressed you, as it chanced, by your own name, nor did I add "My lord," Caecilianus. Do you ask how much such casual conduct has cost me? It has robbed me of a hundred farthings.
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