Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book 1, epigram 4 (1.4.7-8) (AD 85-86) [tr. Duff (1929)] - Martial | WIST Quotations
Strict censure may this harmless sport endure: My page is wanton, but my life is pure. [Innocuos censura potest permittere lusus: Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.] An appeal to Emperor Domitian, who became censor-for-life in AD 85. (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: Wantons we are; and though our words be…
