Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 71 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Tuberous is the wife, tuberous too even the husband, the daughter is tuberous, and the son-inlaw, and the grandson; nor is the steward, or the bailiff free from this unsightly wen, nor the sturdy ditcher, and not even the ploughman. Seeing that young and old alike are tuberous, the wonderful thing is— not a single field bears tubers!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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