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
mountain lightning strikes
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
mind care morrow
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
cheer father taken
He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
grammar cases disputes
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
littles virtue economy
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
wine worry smooth
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
running wine water
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
wine law dry-up
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
procrastination tears delay
Tear thyself from delay.
hate i-hate irreverent
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
wall doors fire
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
hero night agamemnon
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
running nature danger
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
mean envy golden
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.