Epigrammaton libri 14 - Martialis, Marcus Valerius 40-104 (Paris Colinæus, 1544)
Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist and is considered the creator of the modern epigram.
Summa dilligentia castigati. Adiecta Graecarum vocum, quibus author utitur, interpretatione.
Keywords: 16th Century (1501-1600); Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); History