Forgive him for he knows not what he writes

Versiculos in me narratur scribere Cinna. Non scribit, cuius carmina nemo legit. Cinna attacks me, calls me dirt? Let him. Who isn’t read, can’t hurt. Dicon che Cinna scrive versicoli contro di me. Non scrive, chi i suoi versi non li legge nessuno.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 3, IX
English translation by Richard O’Connell
Italian translation by Giuseppe Lipparini

Paul Klee, Senecio, 1922. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.