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
play fierce strife
Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.
sometimes caught
Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
wall faults sides
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
marble brighter
Brighter than Parian marble.
wine wrath secret
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
wise men fool
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
cups dresses honestly
A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
liars greater
A greater liar than the Parthians.
blood skins leeches
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
men taste refined
A man of refined taste and judgment.
men perfect fingers
A man perfect to the finger tips.
long add deliberation
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
men delight admire
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
men envious fatness
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.