Epigrams

Name: Bawdy, backbiting and hilarious
Item: Epigrams
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By Marcus Valerius Martialis and Frederick Apthorp Paley

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Bawdy and biting epigrams, freshly translated, ready for enjoyment. One of literatureas greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, and set a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0670020397

ISBN13:9780670020393

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Viking Pr

Length:205 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:7.5" x 0.8" x 4.8"

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Bawdy, backbiting and hilarious

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago

Translations of Martial's bawdy and bitchy epigrams, as pertinent today as they were in the first century AD, when he wrote them.

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