Universal basic income

Duxerat esuriens locupletem pauper anumque uxorem: pascit Gellius et futuit. Feignlove, half-starved, a rich old hag has wed: — Poor Feignlove, doom’d to earn his board in bed. Ha sposato una vecchia e ricca dama Gellio affamato e povero: in due modi così Gellio si sfama.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 11, LXXX
English translation by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
Italian translation by P. M.

A four-week old barn owl chick born at Blair Drummond Safari Park, near Stirling, Scotland Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA.