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
dust shadow
We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]
men standards should
Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]
sorrow drink
To drink away sorrow.
knowledge all-things knows
To know all things is not permitted.
grandparent evil bears
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.
latin done half
Half is done when the beginning is done.
latin bulls horns
The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.
latin appearance deceived
We are deceived by the appearance of right.
latin sea sky
Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.
latin opportunity waste
Don't waste the opportunity.
latin tomorrow capture
Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.
latin tribes yoke
The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.
latin again-and-again pleasant
The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.
latin mad insane
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.