Authority Cited: Martial
Author name and dates: Marcus Valerius Martialis (40-102 to 104)
BKG Bio-tweet: Latin poet from Hispania; flattered Rome patrons; satirist; creator of modern epigram; wrote 1500: descriptive to pungent
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
The entire epigram in Loeb is:
99 Bascauda
Barbara de pictis veni bascauda Britannis,
sed me iam mavult dicere Roma suam.
The English translation from Loeb is:
99. Basket
I have come, a barbarian basket, from the painted Britons,
but Rome now prefers to call me hers.
Martial Epigrams 71, Book 13, LCL 480, pp. 200-201, Loeb Classical Library, edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey; phenicopter
In the definition of phenicopter, SJ gives:
"A kind of bird, which is thus described by Martial:
Dat mihi penna rubens nomen sed lingua gulosis
Nostra sapit; quid si garrula lingua foret?"
The Epigram in Loeb is:
71 Phoenicopteri
Dat mihi pinna rubens nomen, sed lingua gulosis
nostra sapit. quid si garrula lingua foret?
The English translation from Loeb is:
71. Flamingoes
My ruddy wing gives me a name, but my tongue is a treat to
epicures. What if my tongue were to tell tales?
Author name and dates: Marcus Valerius Martialis (40-102 to 104)
BKG Bio-tweet: Latin poet from Hispania; flattered Rome patrons; satirist; creator of modern epigram; wrote 1500: descriptive to pungent
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
- Martial Epigrams 99, Book 14, LCL 480, pp. 272-273, Loeb Classical Library, edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey; basket
The entire epigram in Loeb is:
99 Bascauda
Barbara de pictis veni bascauda Britannis,
sed me iam mavult dicere Roma suam.
The English translation from Loeb is:
99. Basket
I have come, a barbarian basket, from the painted Britons,
but Rome now prefers to call me hers.
Martial Epigrams 71, Book 13, LCL 480, pp. 200-201, Loeb Classical Library, edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey; phenicopter
In the definition of phenicopter, SJ gives:
"A kind of bird, which is thus described by Martial:
Dat mihi penna rubens nomen sed lingua gulosis
Nostra sapit; quid si garrula lingua foret?"
The Epigram in Loeb is:
71 Phoenicopteri
Dat mihi pinna rubens nomen, sed lingua gulosis
nostra sapit. quid si garrula lingua foret?
The English translation from Loeb is:
71. Flamingoes
My ruddy wing gives me a name, but my tongue is a treat to
epicures. What if my tongue were to tell tales?