Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 23 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Phoebus, come thou, but in thy might, as thou wert when to him who thundered of war thou gavest with thy own hand the second quill of the Latin lyre. What should be my prayer for a day so great? Mayst thou, Polla, long revere thy spouse, and may he himself feel that he is revered!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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