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
country sweet glorious
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
sweet should ready
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
sweet latin
He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
sweet mind occasions
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
sweet love-making despise
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
sweet drink homeland
It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
sweet solace labor
O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]
country sweet latin
It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.
country sweet patriotic
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
cruel kindly mother strive sweet
I am not what I was when kindly Cinara was queen. Strive no more, cruel mother of sweet loves.
christian song sweet
As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
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