MARTIAL'S EPIGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 9

MARTIAL'S EPIGRAMS.

If the classics arc to bo. saved from the axe of the college* reformer (says the New York "Post") it will be partly through the efforts of men like Mr. Paul Nixon, of Bowdoin. "I'wc years ago," Mr. Nixon, by way of preface, to ";i; Roman Wit," "in an attempt to prove to certain bored freshmen, that, the Romans .were not at, all times hopsiessly austere and lofty, 1 started writing-for myr.clasEcs: sonic, ol tho following version? of Martial's epigrams. They worn received patiently almost cheerfully. This was success!' Tho' ultimate result has been the pre. sent volume of 200 epigrams of Mar tial, from, which wo quote a half-dozen AN EXPLANATION. Philaenia weeps with just one eye. Queer, is it not? You wish -you knew the reason why? That's all she's got. SINE DIE. When his pyre was constructed and spicei were bought, And his weeping wife fainted and fell When embalmers were there and his bie: had been brought Numa made me his heir—and got well TO M.ATHO. You've purchased my villa at Tibur. I. cheated. You-stopped there on tour So confoundedly much when I lived tier I -feel what I sold you was yours. I TO LAELITJS. You damn every poem I write, Yet you won't publish thpso of you own. Now kindly let yours see the light, [ Or else leave my damned ones alone. A GOLDEN SORROW. I saw Saleianus in mourning array And asked what had darkened his life. Ho heaved a long sigh, Wiped a tear from his eye, And rejoined that he'd buried his wifi 0 ye criminal Fates, what ill-will ye di: play Toward a man unprepared for such lo Since he married the maid (In her seventh decade) All for love—with a two-million dot! A DIFFICULT PROPOSITION. For my volumes of -verse, friend Tuccs you plead. Very well; Provided you prove that you want thei to read, Not to sell.

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