Sunday, May 22, 2016

Basically

Pauper videri Cinna vult; et est pauper.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and poor he is, indeed.

Cinna vuol sembrare povero; e lo è.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 8, XIX
English translation by George Moody
Italian translation by Giuseppe Lipparini

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