Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 78 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Although the tail of a Saxetan lizard-fish is served, and, if you dine lavishly, beans dressed with oil are set before yourself, you send as presents sow's paunch, boar, hare, mushrooms, oysters, mullets: Papylus, you have neither sense nor taste.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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