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
sports broken shame
The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]
speech obscure concise
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]
sleep long bonus
I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer. [Lat., Et idem Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]
silence faithful rewards
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
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.]