Social Commentaries
Book VI, Epigram 94 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Gold-enamelled plate is always served to Calpetianus, whether he dines away from home or when he is at home in town. In this way, too, he always dines at an inn, in this way in the country. Has he no other plate then? Nay, he possesses none — of his own!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book VI, Epigram 94 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/891/.
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