Martial Quotes About Eating

• I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

  Marcial

  Lakes, Water, Noble

• You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

  Marcial

  Giving, Wish, Three

  Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

• See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

  Marcial

  Eating, Fats, Grows

  Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

• However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

  Marcial

  Eating, Dishes, Stills

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.598

• If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

  Marcial

  Bird, Delicacy, Opinion

  Martial (1904). “The Epigrams of Martial”

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