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		<title>Martial -- Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book  6, epigram  12 (6.12) (AD 91) [tr. McLean (2014)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hair she swears is hers Fabulla bought. So, Paulus, is that perjury or not? [Iurat capillos esse, quos emit, suos Fabulla: numquid, Paule, peierat?] Perhaps a reference back to Paulus doing something similar with poetry (ep. 2.10). (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: You see the goodly hayre that Galla weares, &#8216;Tis certain her own hair, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The hair she swears is hers Fabulla bought.<br />
So, Paulus, is that perjury or not?</p>
<p><em>[Iurat capillos esse, quos emit, suos<br />
Fabulla: numquid, Paule, peierat?]</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  6, epigram  12 (6.12) (AD 91) [tr. McLean (2014)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://books.google.ie/books?id=SQwwBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&pg=PR7#v=snippet&q=%22fabulla%20bought%22&f=false" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Perhaps a reference back to Paulus doing something similar with poetry (ep. <a href="https://wist.info/martial/47371/">2.10</a>). (<a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi1294.phi002.perseus-lat1:6.12">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>You see the goodly hayre that <i>Galla</i> weares,<br>
<span class="tab">'Tis certain her own hair, who would have thought it?<br>
She sweares it is her owne: and true she sweares:<br>
<span class="tab">For hard by Temple-barre last day she bought it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Sir_John_Harington/hZ03AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22goodly%20hayre%22">Harington</a> (fl. c. 1600), Ep. 162 - <em>Epigrams</em> Book 2 #66 "Of Galla's goodly Periwigge"]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The golden hair that Galla wears<br>
<span class="tab">Is hers: who would have thought it?<br>
She swears 'tis hers, and true she swears,<br>
<span class="tab">For I know where she bought it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Martial/LzXgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22golden%20hair%22">Harington</a> (fl. c. 1600), as paraphrased in Bohn, possibly from Anon. below.]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>Fabulla sweares her haire (which at a rate<br>
She bought) is hers. Is she forsworne in that?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A07090.0001.001/1:5.80?rgn=div2;view=fulltext">May</a> (1629)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>Shee sweares tis her owne hayre. Who would have thought it?<br>
Shee's nott forsworne though: I know where shee bought it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialinenglish00mart/page/154/mode/2up">Anon.</a> - British Library MS Add. 27343 (17th C)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Locks Fabby purchas'd, and her own she swore.<br>
Who would not, Paul, the perjury deplore?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_M_Val_Martial/vksOAAAAQAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22locks%20fabby%22">Elphinston</a> (1782), Book 12, ep. 163]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fabulla swears that the hair which she has bought is her own. Does she perjure herself, Paulus?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book06.htm#:~:text=Fabulla%20swears%20that%20the%20hair%20which%20she%20has%20bought%20is%20her%20own.%20Does%20she%20perjure%20herself%2C%20Paulus%3F">Bohn's Classical</a> (1859)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fabulla swears that the hair she buys is hers.<br>
Does she therefore swear falsely, Paulus?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams/w4ZfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22fabulla%20swears%22">Ker</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Those purchased tresses which her head adorn<br>
Fabulla swears are hers -- is she forsworn?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialtwelveboo0000tran/page/168/mode/2up?q=%22by+right+of+purchase%22">Pott & Wright</a> (1921), "By Right of Purchase"]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>That plush hair Fabulla wears? <br>
<span class="tab">It's hers, Fabulla swears. <br>
I've no reason to deny it: <br>
<span class="tab">I saw Fabulla buy it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/selectedpoemstra00matt/page/138/mode/2up?q=%22fabulla+swears%22">Matthews</a> (1992)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>Fabulla swears that the hair she buys is her own. Is that perjury, Paulus?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://dokumen.pub/martial-epigrams-books-6-10-2-0674995562-9780674995567.html">Shackleton Bailey</a> (1993)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Swears Fabby of her hair so fine,<br>
"I purchased it, so, yes, it's mine."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martialed_arguments/dhQIAAAAQAAJ">Ericsson</a> (1995)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The coif she wears she claims she grew.<br>
Does that seem splitting hairs to you?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martial_s_Epigrams/13X80r3_zQIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22coif%20she%20wears%22">Wills</a> (2007)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>She swears the hair she bought is her own.<br>
Is she lying? No.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martial_Art/QPdaAAAAMAAJ?kptab=editions&gbpv=1&bsq=%22is%20she%20lying%22">Kennelly</a> (2008), "No Lie"]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fabulla swears that hair is hers -- the hair she bought; tell me, Paulus, is she lying?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams/AqHKBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22fabulla%20swears%22">Nisbet</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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