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Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book 9, epigram 80 (9.80) (AD 94) [tr. Halhead (1793)] - Martial | WIST Quotations
Feignlove, half-starved, a rich old hag has wed: -- Poor Feignlove, doom’d to earn his board in bed. [Duxerat esuriens locupletem pauper anumque: Uxorem pascit Gellius et futuit.] (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: An old rich wife starv'd Gellius, bare and poor, Did wed: so she cramm'd him and he cramm'd…