“Let me have a plump home-born slave, have a wife not too lettered, have night with sleep, have day without a lawsuit.”

— Martial , book Epigrammata

Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:
Sit nox cum somno: sit sine lite dies.
II, 90 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

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