Epistulae, Epistulae, Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica with an English translation. Horace, creator; Fairclough, H. Rushton (Henry Rushton), 1862-, editor
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Prisco si credis, Maecenas docte, Cratino,
nulla placere diu nec vivere carmina possunt,
quae scribuntur aquae potoribus. ut male sanos
adscripsit Liber Satyris Faunisque poetas,
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vina fere dulces oluerunt mane Camenae.
laudibus arguitur vini vinosus Homerus;
Ennius ipse pater numquam nisi potus ad arma
prosiluit dicenda. “Forum Putealque Libonis
mandabo siccis, adimam cantare severis :”
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hoc simul edixi, non cessavere poetae
nocturno certare mero, putere diurno,
quid? si quis voltu torvo ferus et pede nudo
exiguaeque togae simulet textore Catonem,
virtutemne repraesentet moresque Catonis?
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rupit Iarbitam Timagenis aemula lingua,
dum studet urbanus tenditque disertus haberi.
p.382
decipit exemplar vitiis imitabile: quod si
pallorem casu, biberent exsangue cuminum.
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