Blogging Translation

Martialis is a site where Nick is translating an epigram a day of Martial. What an interesting idea of what to do with a blog – pace yourself in a volunteer task of use to others.

A quote from martialis: I.104,

On its spotted neck the leopard carries a dainty yoke, and vicious tigresses patiently give themselves up to the whip; stags bite the golden spiked bits, Libyan bears are tamed with reins, and a boar, as big as Calydon is said to have carried off, obeys purple halters. Ugly bison drag chariots, and the great beast, ordered to perform gentle dances, does not refuse its black master. So who would not think these spectacles the work of the gods?

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