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
track lame legs
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.
obscure brevity
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
survival doers deeds
Deeds survive the doers.
tongue expenses
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
majesty doe royalty
How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.
pieces drs said
Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.
soil rogues lawyer
Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
governors supreme
Our supreme governors, the mob.
strength judgment policy
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
vices vain embrace
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
arrows mark
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
heed
Take heed lest you stumble.
purses
Never without a shilling in my purse.
arrows guilt defense
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were