Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 76 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Because men of influence vie in hurrying you off to entertainments, colonnades, theatres, and enjoy, whenever you happen to meet them, being carried in litters with you, and enjoy bathing with you, by no means fancy yourself too much. You entertain them, Philomusus, you are not loved.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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