(Bílbilis, 40 - 104)
"Marco Valerio Marcial (en latín, Marcus Valerius Martialis; Bílbilis, actual Calatayud, 1 de marzo de 40-ibídem, 104) fue un poeta latino."
"Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial /mrl/; March, between 38 and 41 AD between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) 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 cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Martial was famously deaf in his left ear, an attribute most likely arising from a birth defect. Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist, and is considered the creator of the modern epigram."