Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 36 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
When my rough country-house was refusing to endure any longer the rain and drenching sky, and was swimming in a winter deluge, many a tile, to carry off sudden storms, reached me by your bounty. See, rough December roars with the North wind's thunder! Stella, you cover the farm, you don't clothe the farmer!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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