“Bassus, you unload your bowels into a golden bowl and feel no shame, but you drink from glass: so you’re paying more to shit.”
Ventris onus misero, nec te pudet, excipis auro,
Basse, bibis vitro: carius ergo cacas.
Martial 1.37, On Gold and Glass
“Bassus, you unload your bowels into a golden bowl and feel no shame, but you drink from glass: so you’re paying more to shit.”
Ventris onus misero, nec te pudet, excipis auro,
Basse, bibis vitro: carius ergo cacas.