I was recently reminded of one of the Epigrams of the Roman poet Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis). It is about the lawyers of his day, but it reflects — in an exaggerated way, of course ...

Pliny the Elder called it a “secretion of putrefying matter,” Plato called it “putrid garum” and Marcus Valerius Martialis, a first century Roman poet, satirically praises a friend for ...

Marcus Valerius Martialis was born in Spain around 40 AD, went to Rome aged 25 and in the next 35 years wrote the 12 books of epigrams on which his fame rests. Some scholars credit him with ...

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Roman poet (1814). Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet who lived in Hispania (Spain) during the 1st century AD.