Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 38 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
So huge and so ugly are you, Polyphemus, slave of my Severus, that even the Cyclops himself might wonder at you. And Scylla is no smaller. Now, if you marry the two wild monstrosities, each will become the other's bogey!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book VII, Epigram 38 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/927/.
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Martial. “Book VII, Epigram 38 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/927/.
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