Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 68 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Spare, I pray, Instantius Rufus, to recommend my Muse to your father-in-law: perhaps he likes serious poems. But if he too condescends to wanton verse, these I would venture to read even to Curius and Fabricius.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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