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
wasting-time not-wasting-time
What has not wasting time impaired?
wine care vino
Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]
wealth fortune nameless
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.
gratitude
Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?
snow tree lasts
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.
cheerful melancholy dislike
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.
two purple giving
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
prayer garden land
This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden
court
The question is yet before the court.
horse envy lazy
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]
son giving age
Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
obscure strive miscellaneous
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.
mountain littles birth
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
light now-and-then
The mob will now and then see things in a right light.