Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 65 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
A lawsuit while you are counting its twentieth cold winter, still wears you out, Gargilianus, a single suit in three Courts. Ah, unhappy man, and mad! Does anyone go to law for twenty years, Gargilianus, who can give in?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book VII, Epigram 65 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/953/.
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