Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 17 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
O library of a dainty country house, from which a reader surveys the City close at hand, if, amid poems more reverend, there shall be a place for wanton Thalia, thou mayst put in a niche, though it be the lowest one, these seven little books which I have sent thee, scored by their author's pen: such correction gives them value! But do thou, dainty one, that, because of my small gift, shall be sung and known throughout the world, protect this pledge of my heart's love, O library of Julius Martialis!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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