Martial is a keen and sharp-tongued observer of Roman soeiety. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and Iavvyers, sehoolmasters and street hawkers, jugglers and aerobats, doetors and plagiarists, beautiful slaves, and generous hosts are among the diverse eharaeters who populate his verses. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books eapture the spirit of Roman life-both publie and private-in vivid detail. 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Speetaeles." Written with satirie wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this eolleetion reeord the broad speetaele of shows in the new arena. It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in A.D.
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