Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 89 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
Go, happy rose, and with thy soft chaplet gird the locks of my Apollinaris. And see that thou wreathe them when — but may it be long hereafter — they are white: so may Venus ever love thee!
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Martial. “Book VII, Epigram 89 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/975/.
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