Book, Chapter

 1    5, 145|     Ovid (Amor. i, 8, line 43). Martial, writing about ninety years
 2    5, 145|      century separates Ovid and Martial; from a moral standpoint,
 3    5, 145|  passage in the Latin classics. Martial, and Catullus himself, elsewhere,
 4    5, 145|        in Petronius (chap. 92). Martial (lib. i, 24)~"You invite
 5    5, 145|       masseurs and prostitutes (Martial, iii, 82, 13); (Juvenal,
 6    5, 145|        assist in the toilette: (Martial, vii, 3.4) "a slave girt
 7    5, 145|      recent times. The pages of Martial and Juvenal reek with the
 8    5, 145|     general usage.~But it is in Martial that we are able to sense
 9    5, 145|       the stripe of her of whom Martial (ix, 69) makes caustic mention:~"
10    5, 145|        in favor of odd numbers (Martial, xii, 44, 5), where the
11    5, 148| difficult to marry a real man." Martial, vii, 57.~"No faith is to
12    5, 148|      Bassus, you have sold it." Martial, xii, 99.~"Polytimus is
13    5, 148|      with 3,000,000 sesterces." Martial xii, 76.~But the crowning
14    5, 148|        infamy is to be found in Martial's three epigrams upon his
15    5, 149|     with lascivious attention."~Martial, xi, 46, makes mention of
16    5, 152|       was based upon Petronius, Martial, and the thirteenth book
17    5, 155|         sort referred to above. Martial, lib. VI, 63, addresses
18    5, 156|         castration. Juvenal and Martial have lavished bitter scorn
19    5, 156|   otherwise, of their husbands: Martial, xii, 54: but when the passions
20    5, 156|        went so far as to marry: Martial, xi, 82, and Juvenal, i,
21    5, 159|         in your establishment," Martial, i, 93~To touch the posteriors
22    5, 159|       In this epigram, however, Martial threatens the eye and not
23    5, 159|      catamite, Sextillus," says Martial, ii, 28, "return the compliment
24    5, 160|     references to it: Catullus, Martial, the apostle Paul, Tertullian,
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