Carmina, Horace, creator; Shorey, Paul, 1857-1934, editor; Laing, Gordon Jennings, 1869-, joint editor; Laing, Gordon Jennings, 1869-1945, joint editor
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4.2
Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari,
Iulle, ceratis ope Daedalea
nititur pennis vitreo daturus
nomina ponto.
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monte decurrens velut amnis, imbres
quem super notas aluere ripas,
fervet inmensusque ruit profundo
Pindarus ore,
laurea donandus Apollinari,
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seu per audacis nova dithyrambos
verba devolvit numerisque fertur
lege solutis,
seu deos regesque canit, deorum
sanguinem, per quos cecidere iusta
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morte Centauri, cecidit tremendae
flamma Chimaerae,
sive quos Elea domum reducit
palma caelestis pugilemve equomve
dicit et centum potiore signis
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munere donat,
flebili sponsae iuvenemve raptum
plorat et viris animumque moresque
aureos educit in astra nigroque
invidet Orco.
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multa Dircaeum levat aura cycnum,
tendit, Antoni, quotiens in altos
nubium tractus: ego apis Matinae
more modoque
grata carpentis thyma per laborem
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plurimum circa nemus uvidique