Last Night, After Five Pints of Wine (Martial)

Last Night, After Five Pints of Wine

 
Last night, after five pints of wine,
I said, ‘Procillus, come and dine
Tomorrow.’ You assumed I meant
What I said (a dangerous precedent)
And slyly jotted down a note
Of my drunk offer. Let me quote
A proverb from the Greek: ‘I hate
an unforgetful drinking mate’.

~Martial (AD c.40-c.104) Trans. James Michie