{"id":165,"date":"2006-01-18T00:27:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T05:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=165"},"modified":"2007-09-03T18:21:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:21:59","slug":"an-epigram-of-martial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"An Epigram of Martial"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Amissum non flet cum sola est Gellia patrem,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;si quis adest, iussae prosiliunt lacrimae.<br \/>\nnon luget quisquis laudari, Gellia, quaerit;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ille dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p font=\"navy\">In private she mourns not the late-lamented;<br \/>\nIf someone\u2019s by her tears leap forth on call.<br \/>\nSorrow, my dear, is not so easily rented.<br \/>\nThey are true tears that without witness fall.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is Martial 1.33, not precisely a joke, but neatly translated by J. V. Cunningham.  The meter is elegiac couplets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amissum non flet cum sola est Gellia patrem, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;si quis adest, iussae prosiliunt lacrimae. non luget quisquis laudari, Gellia, quaerit; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ille dolet vere qui sine teste dolet. In private she mourns not the late-lamented; If someone\u2019s by her tears leap forth on call. Sorrow, my dear, is not so easily rented. They are true tears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-joke-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}