Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
sweet should ready
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
life evil serenity
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
environment refinement force
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.
work obscure recreation
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
silly mountain littles
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
sloth wicked sirens
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
fate destiny men
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.
philosophical moderation
There is moderation in everything.
crime disgrace
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
justice fidelity
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
eye years crafts
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
procrastination tears delay
Tear thyself from delay.
wine law dry-up
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
running wine water
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?