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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 00:12, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

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Poverty in ancient Rome

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  • ... that the Roman writer Martial compared the poor to dogs? Source: Erdkamp, Paul, ed. (September 30, 2013), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/CCO9781139025973, ISBN 978-113-902-597-3, archived from the original (PDF) on June 16, 2018, retrieved August 8, 2022.

Created by Graearms (talk). Self-nominated at 15:37, 10 August 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Everything appears good. QPQ done. AGF on the source which I can't access. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:19, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Just as a note the wrong source is listed above, it's actually the source Poverty in the Roman World which is referenced in the article. I am able to confirm that page 95 of that book does indeed verify the text in the hook: The association of the poor with dogs recurs in different forms in other epigrams of Martial. It then goes on to describe various things "the pauper" will do that is like a dog. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome is available through the Wikipedia Library and is in a searchable form and does not, to the best that I can tell, mention anything about comparing the poor with dogs, but the Poverty in the Roman World source absolutely does. - Aoidh (talk) 11:07, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
@Graearms: I added a citation needed tag to the article. Can you resolve this? Thanks, Z1720 (talk) 23:32, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
I just fixed it. Thank you for notifying me of this issue and helping me improve this article. Graearms (talk) 23:37, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
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