Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 79 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
I have just drunk a consular wine. You ask how old and generous it was? Laid down in the year of an ancient consul. But my host who served it, Severus, was consul.
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Martial. “Book VII, Epigram 79 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/965/.
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Martial. “Book VII, Epigram 79 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/965/.
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