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Today is March 1st, the birthday of the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, commonly called Martial. I would often teach about Martial and...

The other day in Latin III, my students asked a question that made me realize something about Martial's poem V.34 about the death of Ero...

I offered this poem to my Latin III students recently. They dutifully translated it, but, as it should be, they did not appreciate the mess...

The poet Martial writes in Epigram V.58: Cras te victurum, cras dicis, Postume, semper: dic mihi, cras istud, Postume, quando venit? Quam l...

I always get excited when I come across an echo from one author to another. When I was reading Martial the other day, I found Verona docti s...