Martial: Select Epigrams
โ Lindsay Watson; Patricia Watson
๐ Library
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2003
๐ Cambridge University Press
๐ English
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The Roman poet Martial concentrated on the genre of epigram, which he brought to such perfection that he provided the model for subsequent epigrammatists. He is best known for his pungently witty poems, which gave the word 'epigram' its modern definition, but his range is much wider than this: he ha