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Friday, March 11, 2011

Martial, Epigram 7.20

Marcus Valerius Martialis
1st-2nd c. AD (over 1,900 years ago)
Trans. RMBullard
Latin (Silver Age)

Quare non habeat, Fabulle, quaeris uxorem Themison?
(Why--you ask me, Fabullus-- does Themisus not have a wife?)

habet sororem.
(He has his sister.)