{"id":9660,"date":"2012-06-01T12:14:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/01\/martial\/"},"modified":"2012-06-01T12:14:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:14:03","slug":"martial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/01\/martial\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Nugget from Martial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There have always been serious writers and there have always been low-rent scribblers. You should not imagine that it was any different in the ancient world.&#0160; Here is a little something from <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martial\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Martial\">Martial<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>Cui legisse satis non est epigrammata centum,<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>nil illi satis est, Caediciane, mali.<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#0160;&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Caedicianus, if my reader<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">After a hundred epigrams still<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Wants more, then he&#39;s a greedy feeder<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Whom no amount of swill can fill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">(tr. James Michie)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have always been serious writers and there have always been low-rent scribblers. You should not imagine that it was any different in the ancient world.&#0160; Here is a little something from Martial. Cui legisse satis non est epigrammata centum,nil illi satis est, Caediciane, mali.&#0160;&#0160; Caedicianus, if my readerAfter a hundred epigrams stillWants more, then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/01\/martial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Little Nugget from Martial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}