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
absurd birth mountains
Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
labor mountains mouse ridiculous
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
fond illusion mock
Do you hear, or does some fond illusion mock me?
avoid cottage favourites greatness happiness kings
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
bowl soul troubles within
Bacchus drowns within the bowl - Troubles that corrode the soul
crazy fools-and-foolishness
As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.
artful cost forming instead management recommend words
Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones
city country distant oh praise rome stars
In Rome you long for the country; in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars
city country distant oh praise rome stars
In Rome you long for the country; in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars
deal great poet tribe
I put up with a great deal to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
grief wish
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
cruel kindly mother strive sweet
I am not what I was when kindly Cinara was queen. Strive no more, cruel mother of sweet loves.
madness
Anger is brief madness
noble wealth descent
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.