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Excerpt from Select Epigrams of Martial Formance was undertaken for amufe ment; and it is hoped, the revifal and publication will not be thought entirely Vanity. If 1t may fometimes excite mirth 1n the reader that is not the 'p1incipal am and intention: which is to make him wifer, by exhibiting a picture of life by a mafierly hand. What {hall I call it? It is a man flation or imitation of Martial 5 or both. Not of all his epigrams5 that would be un pardonable. Many a1e full of obfcenity, beneath a man: others of adulation, unb'e Coming a Roman and great numbers con 'cerning his own writings are omitted, for fear of cloying the reader. Some few will not admit of atranation and not a few are too trifling to defe1 ve it; and of this laft fort, perhaps I might have been for given, if I had 1etrenched mo1e. What I have {elected are generally moral or in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.