The difficult epigrammatic "ars" of Martial
Abstract
Martial is a very acute epigrammist and his refined wit, combined with the conciseness of style, can mislead modern interpreters. Therefore the translations that reveal the interpretations become a sort of betrayal of the poet. This is what happens in the group of epigrams of the tenth book, in which the poet announces to his readers the intention to return to Bilbilis, the Spanish city where he was born. The interpretative errors of 10.37 and 10.104 are particularly surprising.
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