Quote: “Yet, that you may not so often the corrections of your master, and that his relentless pen may not so often mark your, your desire, frolicsome little book, to fly through the air of heaven.”
Comment: I had a really hard time making sense of this reading, but I found the way he calls out hypocrisy and superficiality to be very interesting and very refreshing. His argument that writing is a living, breathing thing that can’t be so easily bought and sold is very cool.
Question: What were Martial’s intentions when he decided to write this series of epigrams?