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Quintus Horatius Flaccus. ODE VI . TO SEPTIMIUS . SEPTIMIUS , who thy course would bend To distant Gades with thy friend , Or the Cantabrian , all unbroke As yet to undergo our yoke ; Or e'en the barbarous Syrtes brave , Where ever boils ...
Quintus Horatius Flaccus. ODE VI . TO SEPTIMIUS . SEPTIMIUS , who thy course would bend To distant Gades with thy friend , Or the Cantabrian , all unbroke As yet to undergo our yoke ; Or e'en the barbarous Syrtes brave , Where ever boils ...
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... course wilt thou more wisely keep , By neither pressing on the deep , Licinius , evermore ; Nor while with cautious dread you fear The tempest , venturing too near The rock - imbedded shore . Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit ...
... course wilt thou more wisely keep , By neither pressing on the deep , Licinius , evermore ; Nor while with cautious dread you fear The tempest , venturing too near The rock - imbedded shore . Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit ...
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... course , And death's indomitable force . No , with three hundred bulls each day You ne'er could tearless Pluto sway , Plutona tauris , qui ter amplum Geryonen Tityonque tristi Compescit P 4 ODE XIV . 205 ODES OF HORACE . Backward his ...
... course , And death's indomitable force . No , with three hundred bulls each day You ne'er could tearless Pluto sway , Plutona tauris , qui ter amplum Geryonen Tityonque tristi Compescit P 4 ODE XIV . 205 ODES OF HORACE . Backward his ...
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... course , Black Cocytus ' stream perforce Visited by all must be ; And Danaus ' vile race , and thee , Eolian Sisyphus , with pain For ever doom'd to toil in vain . Your land , your home , must be foregone ; Your pleasing wife too , nor ...
... course , Black Cocytus ' stream perforce Visited by all must be ; And Danaus ' vile race , and thee , Eolian Sisyphus , with pain For ever doom'd to toil in vain . Your land , your home , must be foregone ; Your pleasing wife too , nor ...
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... course was thine , In peace as well as war to shine . Thee , radiant with thy horn of gold , Unharm'd did Cerberus behold , And far from venturing to assail . In playful gambols wagg'd his tail ; And gently lick'd , at your retreat ...
... course was thine , In peace as well as war to shine . Thee , radiant with thy horn of gold , Unharm'd did Cerberus behold , And far from venturing to assail . In playful gambols wagg'd his tail ; And gently lick'd , at your retreat ...
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