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
affair
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
wise military venture
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
running attitude talking
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.
eating flavor pleasure
The pleasure of eating is not in the costly flavor but in yourself.
asking count everyday fortune grants happen refrain
Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
struggle
I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.
died pride vain
Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
falls force judgment
Force without judgment falls of its own weight.
folly greeks
For every folly of their princes, the Greeks feel the lash.
crazy fools-and-foolishness
As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.
avoid cottage favourites greatness happiness kings
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
bowl soul troubles within
Bacchus drowns within the bowl - Troubles that corrode the soul
labor mountains mouse ridiculous
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.