Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 73 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
On the Esquiline you have a house, you have a house on Diana's hill, and the Patrician Street holds a roof of yours; from this you survey the shrine of widowed Cybele, from that the shrine of Vesta; from here the new, from there the ancient temple of Jove. Say where I may call upon you, say in what quarter I may look for you: he who lives everywhere, Maximus, lives nowhere.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book VII, Epigram 73 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/959/.
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