Martial

“Epigrammaton libri (in Latin) at The Latin Library.”

“Audio Valerium Martialem decessisse et moleste fero. Erat homo ingeniosus acutus acer, et qui plurimum in scribendo et salis haberet et fellis nec candoris minus. ... At non erunt aeterna, quae scripsit; non erunt fortasse, ille tamen scripsit, tamquam essent futura.”

“I have now gone through the first seven books of Martial, and have learned about 360 of the best lines. His merit seems to me to lie, not in wit, but in the rapid succession of vivid images. I wish he were less nauseous. ... Besides his indecency, his servility and his mendicancy disgust me.”

“The greatest of epigrammatists, and the father of the epigram as we understand it.”

“And then what proper person can be partialTo all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?”

“He who refuses nothing...will soon have nothing to refuse.”

“Difficilis facilis iucundus acerbus es idem:Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te.”

“Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.”

“The mode of death is sadder than death itself.”

“Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.”

“Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores.”

“Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.”

“Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est Vivere bis vita posse priore frui.”

“Laudas balnea versibus trecentis Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle. Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari.”

“Accipe quam primum; brevis est occasio lucri.”

“Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.”

“Barbarian hordes en masse you fuck,Odd types into your bed you tuck,You take on blacks and Asian forces,And Jews, and soldiers, and their horses.Yet you, voracious Roman chick,Have never known a Roman dick.”

“Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.”

“Nobis pereunt et imputantur.”

“Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.”