Charity

Quem recitas meus est, o Fidentine, libellus: sed male cum recitas, incipit esse tuus. That verse is mine, you know, which you’re Reciting. But you quote it So execrably, that I believe I let you say you wrote it. I versi che tu reciti, o Fidentino, son miei; ma siccome li reciti male, ecco diventano tuoi.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 1, XXXVIII
English translation by Dorothea Wender
Italian translation by Holden Caulfield

A woman speaks with the android robot “totto”, which replicates Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, one of the country’s top TV stars, at the World Robot Summit in Tokyo, Japan on October 18, 2018. Photo: Behrouz Mehri/AFP.