Epistulae

Horace

Horace, Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Fairclough, H. Rushton (Henry Rushton), editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929.

  1. forte latus, nigros angusta fronte capillos,
  2. reddes dulce loqui, reddes ridere decorum et
  3. inter vina fugam Cinarae maerere protervae.
  4. Forte per angustam tenuis volpecula [*]() rimam
  5. repserat in cumeram [*]() frumenti, pastaque rursus
  6. ire foras pleno tendebat corpore frustra;
  7. cui mustela procul, si vis, ait, “effugere istinc,
  8. macra cavum repetes artum, quem macra subisti.”
  9. hac ego si compellor imagine, cuncta resigno;
  10. nec somnum plebis laudo satur altilium nec
  11. otia divitiis Arabum Uberrima muto.