Epigrammata
M. Valerius Martialis
at mea me libram foliati poscat amica,
aut virides gemmas sardonychasve pares,nec nisi prima velit de Tusco Serica vico,
aut centum aureolos sic velut aera roget.
Let my mistress on the other hand demand a pound of foliatum or green gems or matching sardonyxes; let her want none but the finest silks from Tuscan Street, or let her ask me for a hundred gold pieces as if they were copper.
Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from M. Valerius Martialis: Volume I. Spectacles, Books 1-5, Loeb Classical Library Vol. 94, translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1993, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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