10-01-2011, 10:18 AM
Here’s the one you read, and you demand,
Martial, who is known throughout the land
for these witty little books of epigrams:
to whom, wise reader, you keep giving,
while he still feels, among the living,
what few poets merit in their graves.
-- from Epigrams, Book 1 by Martial
Martial, who is known throughout the land
for these witty little books of epigrams:
to whom, wise reader, you keep giving,
while he still feels, among the living,
what few poets merit in their graves.
-- from Epigrams, Book 1 by Martial
It could be worse