Not as Usual

Si te sportula maior ad beatos non corruperit, ut solet, licebit de nostro, Matho, centies laveris. If greater dole has not, as is usual, Bribed you to court wealthy men, You may bathe, Matho, A hundred times at my expense.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 8, XLII
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker

A green rosella and a wallaby drink from a water bowl put out for thirsty wild animals in a backyard in Kayena, Tasmania. Photo: Barbara Walton/EPA.