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
country rome sky
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
graves dies
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
giving liberty poet
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
war atheism bars
When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars.
atheism contentment today
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
feet long toss
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
men long parent
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
lying father practice
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
years fleeting aging
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
happy-life age world
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
anger rage lunacy
Anger is a brief lunacy.
war wine hardship
Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.
drinking feet earth
Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
justice records world
If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.