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Martial – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

By Shirty | Published: January 7, 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial I won’t forgive the Roman poets for their free verse cop-out, but I can grant a special dispensation for Martial, the foul-mood epigrammatist with whom I feel a special connection. Somewhat of a latter-day Mark Twain (or, more accurately, Ambrose Bierce) he was especially good at carving out the ridiculous and deflating any egos […]

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