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
liars doe alarms
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
heaven doe muse
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
doe thorns ifs
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed
latin doe example
Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.
pain doe pleasure
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
knowing shining doe
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]
judging doe corruption
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
secret battle doe
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
parent age doe
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.
doe different ratios
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]
doe littles slave
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
men doe ifs
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.
bows doe apollo
Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]
summer latin doe
One Sallow does not make Summer.