Martial
（Ἀρίστιππος). A Greek philosopher, a native of Cyrené and a pupil of Socrates, after whose death in B.C. 399 he travelled about the Greek cities, imparting instruction for money. He was founder of the Cyrenaic School, or the system of Hedonism (from ἡδονή, pleasure). His doctrine was that as a basis for human knowledge the only things real and true...
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Martial, mar'she^l, [Fr. Martial, mtR'se'tl' ; Lat.
Martia'lis ; It. Marziale, maRt-se-a'la,] or, more
fully,
Mar'cus Vale'rius Martia'lis, a famous Latin epigrammatic
poet, born at Bilbilis, in Spain, about 40 a.d.,
went to Rome at the age of twenty-two, and resided there
thirty-five years. The events of his life are very
imperfectly
known ; but ...
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Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March 1, between 38 and 41 AD - between 102 and 104 AD), was a Latin poet from
Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of
the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he ...
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M. Valerius, a writer of Latin epigrams, was born at
Bilbilis in Spain, in the third year of Claudius, A.D. 43.
He came to Rome in the thirteenth year of Nero, 66; and
after residing in the metropolis thirty-five years, he
returned to the place of his birth, in the third year of
Trajan, 100. He lived there for upwards of three years at
least,...
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