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		<title>Martial -- Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book  9, epigram  80 (9.80) (AD 94) [tr. Halhead (1793)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feignlove, half-starved, a rich old hag has wed: &#8212; 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&#8217;d Gellius, bare and poor, Did wed: so she cramm&#8217;d him and he cramm&#8217;d her. [tr. Fletcher (c. 1650)] [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Feignlove, half-starved, a rich old hag has wed: &#8212;<br />
Poor Feignlove, doom’d to earn his board in bed.</p>
<p><em>[Duxerat esuriens locupletem pauper anumque:<br />
Uxorem pascit Gellius et futuit.]</em></p>
<br><b>Martial</b> (AD c.39-c.103) Spanish Roman poet, satirist, epigrammatist [Marcus Valerius Martialis]<br><i>Epigrams [Epigrammata]</i>, Book  9, epigram  80 (9.80) (AD 94) [tr. Halhead (1793)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/martialinenglish00mart/page/214/mode/2up" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi1294.phi002.perseus-lat1:9.80">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>An old rich wife starv'd Gellius, bare and poor, <br>
Did wed: so she cramm'd him and he cramm'd her.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book09.htm#:~:text=An%20old%20rich%20wife%20starv%27d%20Gellius%2C%20bare%20and%20poor%2C%C2%A0%0ADid%20wed%3A%20so%20she%20cramm%27d%20him%20and%20he%20cramm%27d%20her.">Fletcher</a> (c. 1650)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Consorted wealth and age has Gellius won:<br>
Now Gellius earns, and eats, and is undone.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_M_Val_Martial/vksOAAAAQAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22consorted%20wealth%22">Elphinston</a> (1782), Book 12, ep. 189]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The poor and hungry Gellius married a woman old and rich. He eats and enjoys himself.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book09.htm#:~:text=The%20poor%20and%20hungry%20Gellius%20married%20a%20woman%20old%20and%20rich.%20He%20eats%20and%20enjoys%20himself.">Bohn's Classical</a> (1859)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Hungry, and a pauper, Gellius married a rich and old woman. He now feeds and tickles his wife.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams/RIxiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22hungry%20and%20a%20pauper%22">Ker</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Poor John in his youth was so very sharp-set,<br>
<span class="tab">He married a grand dame for what he could get.<br>
To-day he discovers there's plenty to do;<br>
<span class="tab">For he has both to feed her and fondle her, too.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialtwelveboo0000tran/page/286/mode/2up?q=%22a+bad+bargain%22">Pott & Wright</a> (1921), "A Bad Bargain"]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>A hungry pauper, Gellius married a rich old woman. He feeds his wife and fucks her.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://dokumen.pub/martial-epigrams-books-6-10-2-0674995562-9780674995567.html">Shackleton Bailey</a> (1993)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>She was rich and lonely.<br>
<span class="tab">A hungry man was he.<br>
Now he dines and gets his fill,<br>
<span class="tab">And, later, so does she.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martialed_arguments/dhQIAAAAQAAJ">Ericsson</a> (1995)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>A starving pauper wed a wealthy crone.<br>
Gellius feeds his wife and gives her the bone.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://books.google.ie/books?id=SQwwBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&pg=PR7#v=onepage&q=gellius&f=false">McLean</a> (2014)]</blockquote><br>
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