Epistulae, Epistulae, Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica with an English translation. Horace, creator; Fairclough, H. Rushton (Henry Rushton), 1862-, editor
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Libera per vacuum posui vestigia princeps,
non aliena meo pressi pede. qui sibi fidet,
dux reget examen. Parios ego primus iambos
ostendi Latio, numeros animosque secutus
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Archilochi, non res et agentia verba Lycamben.
ac ne me foliis ideo brevi oribus ornes,
quod timui mutare modos et carminis artem,
temperat Archilochi Musam pede mascula Sappho,
temperat Alcaeus, sed rebus et ordine dispar,
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nec socerum quaerit, quem versibus oblinat atris,
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