Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis, known as Martial (c. 40-c. 104 CE), was a Roman poet from Bilbilis in Spain who spent most of his career at Rome. He is the great master of the Latin epigram, the short, pointed poem, and his twelve published books of epigrams paint a witty, satirical, and remarkably vivid picture of everyday life in imperial Rome. His work fixed the modern sense of the 'epigram' as a sharp, often comic verse.