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
punishment terrible pursue
Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
heaven destroyed my-friends
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
laughter my-friends
Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?
opportunity may lasts
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
names stories subjects
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
lessons enjoy forefathers
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.
dark night issues
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.
taste different various
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
sweet love-making despise
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
heart cold
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
winter dull
Dull winter will re-appear.
fate each-day gains
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
thinking years heaven
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.
animal spirit
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.