Epodon, Horace, creator; Vollmer, Friedrich, 1867-1923, editor
Ibis Liburnis inter alta navium,
amice, propugnacula,
paratus omne Caesaris periculum
subire, Maecenas, tuo:
5
quid nos, quibus te vita sit superstite
iucunda, si contra, gravis?
utrumne iussi persequemur otium
non dulce, ni tecum simul,
an hunc laborem mente laturi, decet
10
qua ferre non mollis viros?
feremus et te vel per Alpium iuga
inhospitalem et Caucasum
vel occidentis usque ad ultimum sinum
forti sequemur pectore.
15
roges, tuom labore quid iuvem meo,
inbellis ac firmus parum?
comes minore sum futurus in metu,
qui maior absentis habet:
ut adsidens inplumibus pullis avis
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serpentium adlapsus timet
magis relictis, non, ut adsit, auxili
latura plus praesentibus.
libenter hoc et omne militabitur
bellum in tuae spem gratiae,
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non ut iuvencis inligata pluribus
aratra nitantur meis
pecusve Calabris ante Sidus fervidum
Lucana mutet pascuis
neque ut superni villa candens Tusculi
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Circaea tangat moenia:
satis superque me benignitas tua
ditavit, haud paravero
quod aut avarus ut Chremes terra premam,
discinctus aut perdam nepos.
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