Morio dictus erat: uiginti milibus emi.
Redde mihi nummos, Gargiliane: sapit. He had been described as an idiot; I bought him for twenty thousand sesterces. Give me back my money, Gargilianus; He has his wits. |
Martial, Epigrams, Book 8, XIII
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker
An adult king penguin surrounded by chicks on Marion Island, one of the sub-antarctic Prince Edward Islands. This picture was the overall winner in the British Ecological Society’s photo contest “Capturing Ecology”. Photo: Chris Oosthuizen/University of Pretoria/British Ecological Society.
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