Note 347 — Chapter VIII · THE TWO PLINYS—MARTIAL—WAS THE ROD JOINTED?
Reading edition
The epitaph in Corpus Inscript. Lat., ii. 2335, is of interest:
d. {M.} Quintus Marius Optatus heu iuvenis tumulo qualis iacet a[bditus isto,] qui pisces iaculo capiebat missile dextra, aucupium calamo præter studiosus agebat ...
Cf. Carm. Lat. Epig., no. 412.