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		<title>Martial -- Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book  5, epigram  57 (5.57) (AD 90) [tr. Pott &#038; Wright (1921)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though I called you &#8220;My lord,&#8221; you&#8217;ve no reason for pride: For so to your slaves I have often replied. [Cum voco te dominum, noli tibi, Cinna, placere: Saepe etiam servum sic resaluto tuum.] (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: When &#8220;Sir&#8221; I call you, be not pleased; for know, Cinna, I often call your servant so. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Though I called you &#8220;My lord,&#8221; you&#8217;ve no reason for pride:<br />
For so to your slaves I have often replied.</p>
<p><em>[Cum voco te dominum, noli tibi, Cinna, placere:<br />
Saepe etiam servum sic resaluto tuum.]</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  5, epigram  57 (5.57) (AD 90) [tr. Pott &#038; Wright (1921)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/martialtwelveboo0000tran/page/156/mode/2up?q=%22so+to+your+slaves%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi1294.phi002.perseus-lat1:5.57">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>When "Sir" I call you, be not pleased; for know, <br>
Cinna, I often call your servant so.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Martial/LzXgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22call%20thy%20servant%22&pg=PA251&printsec=frontcover">Wright</a> (1663)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>When I call you "My lord," do not be vain, Cinna. I often return your slave's salutation in a similar way.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book05.htm#:~:text=When%20I%20call%20you%20%22My%20lord%3B%22%20do%20not%20be%20vain%2C%20Cinna.%20I%20often%20return%20your%20slave%27s%20salutation%20in%20a%20similar%20way.">Bohn's Classical</a> (1897)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>When I call you "master" don't pride yourself, Cinna. I often return even your slave's greeting so.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams/w4ZfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22slave's%20greeting%22&pg=PA337&printsec=frontcover">Ker</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>When I call you "lord," don't get conceited. I often return your slave's greeting too in that way.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.pdfdrive.com/martial-epigrams-volume-i-spectacles-books-1-5-loeb-classical-library-no-94-e157115547.html">Shackleton Bailey</a> (1993)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I call you "Boss"? Don't show wild joy.<br>
That's what I call my slaves' head boy.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martial_s_Epigrams/13X80r3_zQIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=5.57">Wills</a> (2007)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>When I call you "lord," don't swagger, Cinna. Why?<br>
I often give your slave the same reply.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/selectedepigrams0000mart_b6d3/page/46/mode/2up?q=%22don%27t+swagger%22">McLean</a> (2014)] </blockquote><br>




<blockquote>When I call you "Boss," Cinna, don't be so pleased with yourself; I often reply that way when your slave says hello, even.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams/AqHKBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR5&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22slave%20says%20hello%22">Nisbet</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote><u>Variation:</u><br>
Though I do "Sir" thee, be not vain, I pray:<br>
I "Sir" my monkey Jacko every day.<br>
-- <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Martial/LzXgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22monkey%20jacko%22&pg=PA251&printsec=frontcover">Cyrus Redding</a>, "N. M. Mag., 1828"</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Chandler, Raymond -- The Big Sleep, ch. 3 (1939)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t mind if you don&#8217;t like my manners. They&#8217;re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. In the 1943 movie adaptation by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and J. Furthman, the Phillip Marlowe line is delivered by Humphrey Bogart: &#8220;I don&#8217;t mind if you don&#8217;t like my manners. I don&#8217;t like [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t mind if you don&#8217;t like my manners. They&#8217;re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.</p>
<br><b>Raymond Chandler</b> (1888-1959) American novelist<br><i>The Big Sleep</i>, ch. 3 (1939) 
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In the 1943 movie adaptation by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and J. Furthman, the Phillip Marlowe line is delivered by Humphrey Bogart: "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings."						</span>
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