From The Epigrams

III.37: This two-liner from Martial’s third book of epigrams considers the irascibility of the speaker’s more financially successful friends, concluding that this less than pleasant personality trait might have more than a little something to do with their affluence.

XI.66: In this poem from Martial’s eleventh book of epigrams, the speaker employs both anaphora (the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a grammatical clause) and polysyndeton (the repetition of conjunctions in close succession), to create a poem in the form of a list. The list, in this case, is a series of disparagements directed at the woeful Vacerra, whose many disreputable