| Michael Paschalis - Comparative literature - 2005 - 209 pages
...kind of decorum is basic to literature, and that comic stuff should not be staged in tragic language: descriptas servare vices operumque colores cur ego si nequeo ignoroque poeta salutor? versibus exponi tragicis res cornica non vult (Hor. AP 86-89) Statius engineers the disclosure of sexual... | |
| Thomas O. Beebee - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 316 pages
...family. Genre in Horace is a subtopic of to prepon or decorum, of the ability to find what is fitting: Descriptas servare vices operumque colores cur ego si nequeo ignoroque, poeta salutor? Cur nescire pudens prave quam discere malo? Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult; indignatur... | |
| W.G. van der Weerd - 1942 - 204 pages
...puerosque deorum Et pugilem victorem et equum certamine primum 85 Et iuvenum curas et libera vina referre. Descriptas servare vices operumque colores, Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, poeta salutor ? Cur nescire pudens prave quam discere malo ? Versibus exponi tragicis res cómica non vult; tering... | |
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