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
smart wine simple
Be smart, drink your wine.
wine law dry-up
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
running wine water
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
wine worry smooth
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
art wine glasses
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
war wine hardship
Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.
passion wine secret
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.
wine praise drunkards
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
wine long firsts
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.
wine light soul
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
wine breasts
Wine unlocks the breast.
art powerful wine
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?
wine care flight
By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
war wine want
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]