When you too stoically scorn the grave
- DMI number:
- 27971
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- When you too stoically scorn the grave
- Last Line:
- To bear afflictions is true fortitude
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life and Philosophical enquiry
- Title:
- Select epigrams of Martial [ECCO] [N21209]
- Page No(s):
- pp.86-87
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
Poem Aliases
Martial. Epigrams. Book 11. Epigram 57
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