Those two works were a series of inscriptions for holiday presents called Xenia and Apophoreta.
This author noted that a sheet of papyrus was his play thing and his dice box at the beginning of one work, and he notes that he "doesn't waste nuts" in a work depicting politicians wearing holiday caps. Those two works were a series of inscriptions for holiday presents called Xenia and Apophoreta. In one poem, he wrote that his farm was so small that it could fit under the wing of an insect, and another of his works concerns a woman with four teeth who coughed them out two at a time. Another poem offers an account of the opening of a stadium with descriptions of a rhinoceros, and in another work this poet notes that he lives in a tiny room that is so cold that Boreas would not want to live there. This author of the Liber Spectaculorum accused Tongilianus of burning down his own house, and wrote poems deriding Dr. Symmachus, Flora, and Aelia. The author wrote a poem to Domitian about censorship, and his sole collection consists of twelve books and over 1500 short poems. For 10 points, name this Silver Age Latin poet known for his epigrams.
This author noted that a sheet of papyrus was his play thing and his dice box at the beginning of one work, and he notes that he "doesn't waste nuts" in a work depicting politicians wearing holiday caps.
Marcus Valerius {Martialis}