Martial
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Martialis
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman epigrammatist cited for verses referencing Apollinaris's villa and its sea access.
Nec Martialis alio spectavit, cum de Formiano Apollinaris loquitur:
And Martial had the same thing in mind when he says of the Formian villa of Apollinaris:
Martial, Epigrammata X, 30, 19–20.
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman epigrammatic poet cited as evidence that lawsuits could drag on for decades despite statutory time limits.
Martial speaks of a cause that had been litigated in the three Fora, the Forum Romanum, the Forum Julium, and the Forum Augustum, for twenty years: