This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the
"Guppy tweets drivel and boredom, ennui for purposes of entertainment."Ha, Ha, Ha. Delightful. is the culmination of three years of melancholy, spite, envy and
One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of Roman society and its emperors, and set a pattern