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
wine care flight
By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
desire gold cups
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?
war wine want
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
men matter courses
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
advise
Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.
mind force strikes
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
men faces good-sense
What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
wealth enjoy ifs
What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?
made eloquent bowls
Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
people royalty monarchs
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]
jam satisfaction enough
Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
gold silver virtue
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]
vices virtue avoiding
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
virtue wraps
I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]