It's about time....

Author: * Tanaquil Sergius - 25 Posts on this thread out of 1,424 Posts sitewide.
Date: Sep 13, 2005 - 08:38

I hand down the translation of the third epigram of Martial that was given to to all of you to be translated. Here is the translation:

MARTIALIS, Ep. I, 1
Translation by Tanaquil Sergius

Here he is, the one you are reading, the one you ask for,

Martialis, known all over the world

for his witty books of epigrams:

and this fame which you, attent reader, have given him,

while he is still alive and able to feel it,

few poets have even after their death...

The Latin text and metrical explication of this translation are here.