Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 56 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Heavkn with its stars you, Rabirius, have conceived in your pious soul, who by wondrous art build the mansion of the Palatine. If Pisa - shall be set to give Phidian Jove a temple worthy of him, she will beg of our Thunderer these hands of yours.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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