The rich hypocondriack
Details
Type: Index
Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/4137 (Lt q 18 )
Title: The rich hypocondriack
Author: Anonymous
Language: Latin
Date(s): 165- ?
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/102060
Description
Notes: (How the fool)
First lines: How the foole grunts his pomp to boast
Which otherwise were wholy lost
Last lines: Discharge the quacks and nurses too
My bed will cure with lesse ado
Length: 6
Verse form: 1 stanza, aabbcc
Contents: Suggesting that a rich hypochondriac's expenditure on doctors and medical care proves his foolishness; translation of Martial, "Epigrams", II.16