Marco Valerio Marziale ( 40 d.C.? 104 d.C.)
Book V
XV
Quintum nostrorum liber est, Auguste, iocorum
Et queritur laesus carmine nemo meo,
Gaudet honorato sed multus nominee lector,
Cui victura meo munere fama datur.
“Quid tamen haec prosunt quamvis venerantia multos?”
Non prosint sane, me tamen ista iuvant.
“….and yet it helps”
Here is my fifth book of satire, O Augustus,
And nobody ever complained about my jokes,
Rather many were pleased to have been named
Since they have been given an eternal fame.
“What is the use of all this veneration?”
Not that I get any real wealth, and yet it helps.
Translated by Susannae
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