Martial Quotes About Praise

• You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

  Marcial

  Life, Dying, Puff

  Martial, John Patrick Sullivan (1987). “Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands”, p.301, Univ of California Press

• No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

  Marcial

  Hero, Winning, Men

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

• 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”

• You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

  Marcial

  Thinking, Pay, Praise

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.384

• Those they praise, but they read the others.

  Marcial

  Elogios

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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