Much Ado About Nothing

Esse nihil dicis quidquid petis, inprobe Cinna: si nil, Cinna, petis, nil tibi, Cinna, nego. “’Tis nothing”, you say, whatever you ask, importunate Cinna. If you ask “nothing”, Cinna, nothing I deny you, Cinna.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 3, LXI
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker

A South Korean diver wearing a Santa Claus costume performs with a model dressed as a mermaid in a tank at the COEX Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea. Photo: EPA.