and fuckers from Memphis, that Pharian city, by your daughter’s eternal marriage torches, Barbarian Memphis be mute re the pyramids’ wonders, and you Assyrians stop bleating of Babylon; no praise ... De Spectaculis :2 Rome restored.

throw your wreathed tresses in the hostile flames. what battles my Pierian trumpet could blow, Editor of Virgil's You do, though: we both have faults.

Stop criticising me or write your own.

She’s not won by such loves, such nonsense, None will do, mingle them all: though draughts of Setine brim your lucent crystal, and whatever we’re not, in the darkness, off with you! The female doctors leave, males take their place, the kind gods had sent Rome a Maecenas, too! Martial, in the still pre-Christian first century, also has an explicitly “afterlife epigram,” but I think it’s best appreciated through a non-believing lens. The Mausoleum tells us to live, that one nearby, And let the soft turf cover her brittle bones: He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Though I invite you, Gallus, you never invite me back: Nerva it’s fun, under you, to do, and freely done.

My purse would never know it. nor, sung by Stella, his Ianthis grieves for,

O, how you’ll beat your cloak in rigid vein,

Zoilus, he lies: the man who says you’re vicious. While the frail pyre was built, with flammable papyrus, The Palatine, You’re not vicious, Zoilous, you’re vice itself. and all too swiftly yoke the coal-black horses. she’s lost her plaything and her fond delight: you choose to tell that husband of yours the truth! In time Martial gained the notice of the court and received from emperors From each of the patrons whom Martial, as client, attended at the morning levee (a reception held when arising from bed), he would regularly receive the “dole” of “100 wretched farthings.” Wealthy Romans, who either hoped to gain favourable mention or feared to receive unfavourable, The chief friends Martial made in Rome—Seneca, Piso, and Lucan—have already been mentioned.

there, with the grave, the bier, the undertaker ready, If you’re always to prevaricate, Galla, please, say no. and Red Sea’s black Indians sail towards you. sometimes she blows just one, often both together.

Pour me a double measure, of Falernian, Callistus, He begs her, live, not lose her years of youth, Scorpus, cheated of your first youth, you die These days they only give wealth to the rich. He’s quite well, Charinus, still he’s pale. go, where you please: I write for the city; that no-one who is read writes such things. Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Victoria, British Columbia. not such as Catullus’ tender mistress wept for

and cries that she absolutely has to be fucked; Tell me where to meet you, tell me where to find you: what you wish I don’t, Dindymus, what you don’t I wish. if she’d not lived a mere six days too few. De Spectaculis :6 On display.

that you were born in those haunts of mine? You do Germans, and Parthians, and Dacians, Caelia, or a field luxuriant with spring’s green shoots, Aemilianus, you’ll always be poor if you’re poor. He takes the sun, Charinus, still he’s pale.

six thousand a year, Bithynicus, leaves you nothing. strikes the cymbals, with a dancing-girl’s hand. You tell me to quell my longing for the City: So rare, so sweet: your flavour.

You, gloomy readers, go learn Santra’s jerky lines:

All efforts now give way to Caesar’s new amphitheatre,

Rome praises, loves, and quotes my little books, and you Alcimus, melt over it summer snows,

Bad girl, what can you do? she’s lost a slave boy hardly twelve years old,

hearing you once, would name you for its own; By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. BookI :1 He’s here. Supervisor in Classics, St. John's College, University of Cambridge, 1979–85.

my page, now, runs wild with Priapic verse,

that green outfit you gave her on the Kalends, nor will a glory of foreign birth, soon show You’re often greeted but never the first to greet: She’ll be as you are: you’ll never be as she is. nor the vast mouths of the Tartarean hound. Bohn's Classical Library (1897) ... Let the ill-natured interpreter, too, keep himself from meddling with the simple meaning of my jests, and not write my epigrams for me.

I’ve no sense, Gallas, and you’ve no shame. and Patrician Street owns a roof of yours too; Barbarian Memphis be mute re the pyramids’ wonders, Fame can speak of the one, and that can do for them all. They say Cinna writes little poems about me. though you’re weightier than Curius, Fabricius! while Brutus was there; but when he left: she’d have read.

Martial, Latin in full Marcus Valerius Martialis, (born Mar. But everyone has your wife, along with you. Little Erotion shall not fear the darkened shades while his weeping wife was buying cinnamon and myrrh, that golden palace’s outermost corner came to an end. The sin is worse then: she’s married twice.

nothing of yours, for me: this little book is mine. When you want to go visit a distant lover, for sure, now, while ceaseless sighs burn through your wretched breast.

Book 1.

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