Social Commentaries
Book VII, Epigram 93 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Narnia, girdled by a stream, white with its sulphurous eddies, thou whose twin peaks are scarce to be scaled, why so oft art thou glad to draw my Quintus from me, and to keep him so weary a time? Why destroy est thou for me the value of my small Nomentan farm, which was precious to me because he was my neighbour? But spare me now, nor overdo, Narnia, thy welcome to Quintus: so for all time mayst thou enjoy thy bridge/!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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