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'If you're one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.' The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart
This selection includes 450 lines of Martial and 580 of Pliny the Younger. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary by E. C. Kennedy, the introduction deals with scansion and gives an outline of Martial's life and this relations with Pliny. Thir
Poetic concision in abundance. It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, On the Spectacles. Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this collection