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Marcus Valerius Martial: English Translations of Epigrams, Poems, Quotations and Observations

Marcus Valerius Martialis (better known today as Martial) was born around 40 AD and died around 104 AD. He was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, or modern-day Spain).

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.—Martial

There’s no need for sass,
when outstripping some inglorious ass.
—Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Martial is best known for his twelve books of epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.

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In these short, witty, often scathing and sometimes deliciously raunchy poems, Martial lampooned "civilization" and the boorish/scandalous activities of his contemporaries. He wrote more than 1,500 epigrams, most of them in elegiac couplets, and is generally considered to be the father of the modern epigram. Martial ha