Commonplaces from Martial's Epigrams: A Selection by Garry Wills
Posted on March 10th, 2017
1.8
If, unlike Cato, you stay pure,
Forgoing suicide's allure,
I find you better for denying
Cheap praise solicited by dying.
Cf. Seneca
1.16
Some good things here, and some not worth a look.
For this is that anomaly, a book.
1.39
1.40
1.54
1.55
1.57
1.62
1.66
1.67
1.68
1.72
1.73
1.85
1.86
1.110
2.1
2.3
2.5
2.6
Fur Elise
2.8
2.13
Canto XXI
2.13
2.21
2.25
2.38
2.55
2.71
2.82
3.9
3.18
3.26
3.28
3.40
3.42
3.44
3.55
3.61
3.64
3.66
3.69
3.80
3.89
3.90
La donna è variabile
3.100
4.5
Canto XXI
4.13
4.21
4.22
4.33
τον αυτόν
4.41
4.84
Thais
5.5
To the emperor's librarian
5.7
5.10
5.11
5.18
Christmas presents
5.29
5.32
Thomas Jefferson
5:71
5.81
Vainly the poor extend their palms.
Only the rich are given alms.
6.14
6.15
6.20
6.23
6.43
Cf. Catullus, Carmen 5
6.40
out with the old, in with the new
6.99
Thais
Cf. Isaiah 3:24
8.14
8.54
Cf. If You Wanna Be Happy by Jimmy Soul
10.01
10.21
You make your audience grope and tarry-
Your readers not a dictionary.
But commentators I make merry
Who read me with no commentary.
10.29
Cf. 6.40
10.102
11.13
Paris, son of Priam and brother of Hector?
11.102
11.103
12.46