item: #1 of 152 id: horace-works_02 author: None title: horace-works_02 date: None words: 403 flesch: 52 summary: Augustus Caesar has terrified the world with his thunderbolts, destroyed the monuments of king Numa, and the temples of Vesta, and destroyed the Tiber and the river. Jupiter disapproves of Jupiter's actions. Apollo, Venus, Mars, or Mars may be chosen as punishment for Caesar. keywords: thou cache: horace-works_02.txt plain text: horace-works_02.txt item: #2 of 152 id: horace-works_03 author: None title: horace-works_03 date: None words: 308 flesch: 69 summary: Virgil was about to sail to Athens on the Adriatic Sea. God divided the earth by the separating ocean, if profane ships bound over waters not to be violated. There is nothing too arduous for mortals to attempt. keywords: virgil cache: horace-works_03.txt plain text: horace-works_03.txt item: #3 of 152 id: horace-works_04 author: None title: horace-works_04 date: None words: 225 flesch: 78 summary: Winter has melted away under the change of spring and the western breeze. Now Cytherean Venus leads off the dance by moonlight, and the comely Graces shake the ground with alternate feet. Now it is fitting to encircle the shining head either with verdant myrtle or with flowers. Pale death knocks at the cottages of the poor and the palaces of kings with an impartial foot. keywords: sextius cache: horace-works_04.txt plain text: horace-works_04.txt item: #4 of 152 id: horace-works_05 author: None title: horace-works_05 date: None words: 117 flesch: 74 summary: In Ode V. to Pyrrhha, Neptune's temple shows that she has consecrated her dropping garments to the powerful god of the sea. In Ode I, she caresses a dainty youth, bedewed with liquid perfumes. keywords: pyrrha cache: horace-works_05.txt plain text: horace-works_05.txt item: #5 of 152 id: horace-works_06 author: None title: horace-works_06 date: None words: 162 flesch: 61 summary: Agrippa will be described by Varius as brave and a subduer of his enemies in ODE VI to Agrippa. He will not be compared to Achilles, Ulysses, or the cruel house of Pelops. keywords: agrippa cache: horace-works_06.txt plain text: horace-works_06.txt item: #6 of 152 id: horace-works_07 author: None title: horace-works_07 date: None words: 291 flesch: 64 summary: There are some poets whose one task is to chant in endless verse the city of Pallas. Many a one, in honor of Juno, celebrates Argos, productive of steeds, and rich Mycenae. Neither patient Lacedaemon nor so much did the plain of fertile Larissa, as the house of Albunea, and the precipitately rapid Anio. Teucer fled from Salamis and his father. He is reported to have bound his temples, bathed in wine, with a poplar crown. keywords: teucer cache: horace-works_07.txt plain text: horace-works_07.txt item: #7 of 152 id: horace-works_08 author: None title: horace-works_08 date: None words: 154 flesch: 80 summary: Lydia is trying to ruin Sybaris by inspiring him with love. Lydia hates the sunny plain and doesn't like to touch the yellow Tiber. Lydia doesn't wear military accouterments and she doesn't manage the Gallic steed with bitted reins. Lydia also shuns the oil of the ring more cautiously than viper's blood. keywords: lydia cache: horace-works_08.txt plain text: horace-works_08.txt item: #8 of 152 id: horace-works_09 author: None title: horace-works_09 date: None words: 180 flesch: 66 summary: Soracte is covered with snow. Thaliarchus is a young man. He is not interested in fortune, but in pleasant loves and dancing. He drinks the more generous wine, four years old, from the Sabine jar. keywords: thaliarchus cache: horace-works_09.txt plain text: horace-works_09.txt item: #9 of 152 id: horace-works_10 author: None title: horace-works_10 date: None words: 155 flesch: 53 summary: Mercury is the messenger of Jupiter and the other gods. Apollo threatened Mercury when he was a boy. Mercury deceived Priam, Atreus, Thessalian watch- lights and Troy. Mercury is acceptable both to the supernal and infernal gods. keywords: mercury cache: horace-works_10.txt plain text: horace-works_10.txt item: #10 of 152 id: horace-works_100 author: None title: horace-works_100 date: None words: 241 flesch: 71 summary: The time of the drought has brought on a drought, so Virgil will bring some spikenard for his companions. Virgil does not intend to dip them in his cups scot-free, like a man of wealth in a house abounding with plenty. keywords: virgil cache: horace-works_100.txt plain text: horace-works_100.txt item: #11 of 152 id: horace-works_101 author: None title: horace-works_101 date: None words: 204 flesch: 81 summary: Lyce has become an old woman. She used to seem a beauty, but now she's an ugly old woman with wrinkles and snowy hair. Lyce used to live next to Cynara, but the fates granted her a few years only to preserve her for a long time. keywords: lyce cache: horace-works_101.txt plain text: horace-works_101.txt item: #12 of 152 id: horace-works_102 author: None title: horace-works_102 date: None words: 368 flesch: 50 summary: The Vindelici have lately learned how powerful Augustus is in war. Drusus, by means of his soldiery, has more than once overthrown the Genauni, an implacable race. Claudius overthrew with impetuous might, the iron ranks of the barbarians, and by mowing down both front and rear strewed the ground, victorious without any loss. On that day Alexandria opened her ports and deserted court, fortune, propitious to Augustus, has put a happy period to the war. keywords: thee cache: horace-works_102.txt plain text: horace-works_102.txt item: #13 of 152 id: horace-works_103 author: None title: horace-works_103 date: None words: 242 flesch: 60 summary: Phoebus wrote ODE XV. TO AUGUSTUS, ON THE RESTORATION OF PEACE. Odes IV. to ODES IV. is Ode XV. to Phoebus, on the Restoration of Peace. Ode V. is on the celebration of Bacchus. keywords: caesar cache: horace-works_103.txt plain text: horace-works_103.txt item: #14 of 152 id: horace-works_104 author: None title: horace-works_104 date: None words: 280 flesch: 75 summary: Maecenas will go to war with Liburian galleys among the towering forts of ships. He will follow them either through the summits of the Alps, and the inhospitable Caucus, or to the furthest western bay. Maecensas will be his companion. keywords: maecenas cache: horace-works_104.txt plain text: horace-works_104.txt item: #15 of 152 id: horace-works_105 author: None title: horace-works_105 date: None words: 537 flesch: 58 summary: The countryside life is full of joys for a man. He cultivates his paternal lands with his own oxen and is disengaged from every kind of usury. He is neither alarmed by the horrible trump, nor dreads he the angry sea. A chaste wife helps in the management of the house. keywords: sea; sheep cache: horace-works_105.txt plain text: horace-works_105.txt item: #16 of 152 id: horace-works_106 author: None title: horace-works_106 date: None words: 180 flesch: 80 summary: Medea anointed Jason with garlic as he was going to tie the untried yoke on the bulls. Dejanira made a gift besmeared with this for Jason's mistress. Maecenas is not fond of garlic. keywords: maecenas cache: horace-works_106.txt plain text: horace-works_106.txt item: #17 of 152 id: horace-works_107 author: None title: horace-works_107 date: None words: 181 flesch: 80 summary: Mason and Otho have a great enmity. Mason is a military tribune, while O thaumvir is a ploughed a thousand acres of land and wears out the Appian road with his nags. Mason wears a robe twice three ells long, while Mason sits in the first rows of the circus. keywords: fellow cache: horace-works_107.txt plain text: horace-works_107.txt item: #18 of 152 id: horace-works_108 author: None title: horace-works_108 date: None words: 816 flesch: 68 summary: Witches have taken a boy from his mother and mixed him with other hags. The boy is hungry and thirsty, but his eyes are fixed on forbidden food. The hags take care of the boy with their own children. keywords: boy; power cache: horace-works_108.txt plain text: horace-works_108.txt item: #19 of 152 id: horace-works_109 author: None title: horace-works_109 date: None words: 145 flesch: 81 summary: CASSIUS SEVERUS persecutes innocent strangers. ODE VI. AGAINST CASSISSEVERUS is about a dog that is very bitter against bad men and wants revenge on the aggressors. keywords: care cache: horace-works_109.txt plain text: horace-works_109.txt item: #20 of 152 id: horace-works_11 author: None title: horace-works_11 date: None words: 110 flesch: 79 summary: Leuconoe's life is short, so he should be patient with himself and wait for the last winter. He should take advantage of the present day and not expect too much from the future. He is envious of the current age. keywords: leuconoe cache: horace-works_11.txt plain text: horace-works_11.txt item: #21 of 152 id: horace-works_110 author: None title: horace-works_110 date: None words: 171 flesch: 82 summary: There is too little of Roman blood spilled upon land and sea. The Romans are silent and their souls are stupefied. A cruel fatality and the crime of fratricide have disquieted the Romans since the death of Remus. keywords: romans cache: horace-works_110.txt plain text: horace-works_110.txt item: #22 of 152 id: horace-works_111 author: None title: horace-works_111 date: None words: 147 flesch: 83 summary: Ode VIII. UPON A WANTON OLD WON'T YOU BE HAPPY? is about an old woman. Stoic treatises sometimes love to be on silken pillows. For you to raise an appetite, in a stomach that's nice, it's necessary to exert every art of language. keywords: age cache: horace-works_111.txt plain text: horace-works_111.txt item: #23 of 152 id: horace-works_112 author: None title: horace-works_112 date: None words: 284 flesch: 75 summary: Maecenas is overjoyed at Caesar's victory in the Jugurthine war and wants to drink with him under the Caecuban stately dome to celebrate it. He wants to dissipate care and anxiety for Caesar's danger with delicious wine. keywords: caesar cache: horace-works_112.txt plain text: horace-works_112.txt item: #24 of 152 id: horace-works_113 author: None title: horace-works_113 date: None words: 179 flesch: 72 summary: Maevius makes her departure under an unlucky omen. The Ionian bay, roaring with the tempestuous south-west shall break Maevius' keel. If extended along the winding shore, a lascivious he- goat and an ewe- lamb will be sacrificed to the Tempests. keywords: maevius cache: horace-works_113.txt plain text: horace-works_113.txt item: #25 of 152 id: horace-works_114 author: None title: horace-works_114 date: None words: 296 flesch: 70 summary: It's the third December that Pectius has been mad for Inachia, since he ceased to be mad for Lyciscus. Now his affections are for the Lycaiscus, and he's lost his taste for poetry. keywords: love cache: horace-works_114.txt plain text: horace-works_114.txt item: #26 of 152 id: horace-works_115 author: None title: horace-works_115 date: None words: 267 flesch: 82 summary: In the Ode XII. to a woman whose clothes were over, Inachia is angry with her. Lesbia, who first recommended her to Coan Amyntas, is angry at her for not helping her in time of need. keywords: woman cache: horace-works_115.txt plain text: horace-works_115.txt item: #27 of 152 id: horace-works_116 author: None title: horace-works_116 date: None words: 203 flesch: 76 summary: A horrible tempest has condensed the sky, and showers and snows bring down the atmosphere. It is fitting to be bedewed with Persian perfume and play the lyre sacred to Mercury. There will be wine and music to drive away every symptom of melancholy. keywords: wine cache: horace-works_116.txt plain text: horace-works_116.txt item: #28 of 152 id: horace-works_117 author: None title: horace-works_117 date: None words: 131 flesch: 73 summary: Maecenas is in love with Phryne, but he can't bring to a conclusion the iambics he promised to Maecen as the god prohibits him from bringing them to conclusion. He is not content with his single admirer. keywords: god cache: horace-works_117.txt plain text: horace-works_117.txt item: #29 of 152 id: horace-works_118 author: None title: horace-works_118 date: None words: 242 flesch: 60 summary: Neaera is in love with Horace. Horace prefers someone else. Neaera will be sad when Horace finds out about it. Neera will laugh at Horace's misfortune, because Horace is more successful than her. keywords: love cache: horace-works_118.txt plain text: horace-works_118.txt item: #30 of 152 id: horace-works_119 author: None title: horace-works_119 date: None words: 676 flesch: 62 summary: There is another age worn away by civil wars, and Rome herself falls by her own strength. The Roman people should go wherever their feet will take them, wherever the south or the west beckons them. The stones will swim upward, lifted from the bottom of the sea, and the land will be possessed by wild beasts. keywords: city; land cache: horace-works_119.txt plain text: horace-works_119.txt item: #31 of 152 id: horace-works_12 author: None title: horace-works_12 date: None words: 459 flesch: 67 summary: Clio will sing Ode XII to Augustus. He will sing about Orpheus, Bacchus, Bacchingus, Phoebus, Hercules, Leda, Regulus, Scauri, Paulus, when Carthage conquered, and Fabricius. keywords: thee cache: horace-works_12.txt plain text: horace-works_12.txt item: #32 of 152 id: horace-works_120 author: None title: horace-works_120 date: None words: 805 flesch: 70 summary: Canidia has suffered too much on the account of Horace and the sailors and factors. Her vigor has gone away, her complexion has left her, her bones are covered with a ghastly skin, and her hair with her preparations is grown hoary. Horace has suffered more. keywords: incantations cache: horace-works_120.txt plain text: horace-works_120.txt item: #33 of 152 id: horace-works_122 author: None title: horace-works_122 date: None words: 1491 flesch: 75 summary: Maecenas is annoyed by the fact that no one is content with his or her situation. Fabius will discuss the matter with Maecen as he is not satisfied with his own situation. Maecens says that Jupiter should distend both cheeks in indignation. keywords: life; man; money cache: horace-works_122.txt plain text: horace-works_122.txt item: #34 of 152 id: horace-works_123 author: None title: horace-works_123 date: None words: 1723 flesch: 73 summary: Bad men avoid certain vices and fall into their opposite extremes. Fufidius, wealthy in lands, is afraid of having the character of a rake and spendthrift. Malthinus walks with his garments trailing upon the ground. Rufillus smells like perfume itself. Gorgonius smells like a goat. keywords: father; man; men; person cache: horace-works_123.txt plain text: horace-works_123.txt item: #35 of 152 id: horace-works_124 author: None title: horace-works_124 date: None words: 1819 flesch: 72 summary: Tigellius, that Sardinian, had this fault. Maenius railed at Novius in his absence. This is a foolish and impious self-love, and worthy to be stigmatized. When you look over your own vices, winking at them, as it were, with your own eyes. keywords: friend; man; person cache: horace-works_124.txt plain text: horace-works_124.txt item: #36 of 152 id: horace-works_125 author: None title: horace-works_125 date: None words: 1812 flesch: 64 summary: Lucilius apologizes for the liberties taken by satiric poets in general and by himself. Crispinus challenges him to imitate air which is shut up in leathern bellows. Fannius has presented his manuscripts and picture to the Palatine Apollo. keywords: man; poets; thing; writing cache: horace-works_125.txt plain text: horace-works_125.txt item: #37 of 152 id: horace-works_126 author: None title: horace-works_126 date: None words: 1231 flesch: 75 summary: Heliodorus describes a journey of his from Rome to Brundusium. Heliodorus and his fellow-travellers had to travel on the Appian way. They travelled by water. They arrived under Anxur, where Maecenas and Cocceius were going to meet. keywords: mule; place; water cache: horace-works_126.txt plain text: horace-works_126.txt item: #38 of 152 id: horace-works_127 author: None title: horace-works_127 date: None words: 1707 flesch: 62 summary: Maecenas is of a nobler family than Tullius. Laevinus, the descendant of Valerius, was not more esteemed than Decius. Decius was expelled from the senate house because he did not come from a sire of distinction. keywords: father; man; people; slaves cache: horace-works_127.txt plain text: horace-works_127.txt item: #39 of 152 id: horace-works_128 author: None title: horace-works_128 date: None words: 410 flesch: 58 summary: There was a squabble between Rupilius and Persius, who had business at Clazomenae and had some troublesome litigations with King. After nothing could be settled betwixt them, the worst man walked off and sent presents. keywords: king cache: horace-works_128.txt plain text: horace-works_128.txt item: #40 of 152 id: horace-works_129 author: None title: horace-works_129 date: None words: 608 flesch: 73 summary: Priapus complains that the Esquilian mount is infested with sorceresses. The place was a common sepulcher for the miserable mob, for the buffoon Pantelabus, and Nomentanus the rake. Now it is a healthy place, with a terrace and open terrace. keywords: place; thieves cache: horace-works_129.txt plain text: horace-works_129.txt item: #41 of 152 id: horace-works_13 author: None title: horace-works_13 date: None words: 158 flesch: 68 summary: In Odes I Lydia's heart swells with bile when she hears about Telephus' rosy neck and his waxen arms. Lydia's mind is on fire. Lydia should not expect that her lover will be constant. keywords: lydia cache: horace-works_13.txt plain text: horace-works_13.txt item: #42 of 152 id: horace-works_130 author: None title: horace-works_130 date: None words: 1041 flesch: 86 summary: Bolanus followed him along the Via Sacra. He wants to see a person, unknown to Bolanus, who lives a great way off across the Tiber, just by Caesar's gardens. Bolanus wants to get away from him. keywords: fellow; thing cache: horace-works_130.txt plain text: horace-works_130.txt item: #43 of 152 id: horace-works_131 author: None title: horace-works_131 date: None words: 1150 flesch: 64 summary: Lucilius is praised for his Satire. He intersperses some excellent precepts for the writing of Satire with his opinion of Lucilius. He believes that the ancient comedy was written on the foundation of ridicule. keywords: lucilius; satire; verses cache: horace-works_131.txt plain text: horace-works_131.txt item: #44 of 152 id: horace-works_132 author: None title: horace-works_132 date: None words: 1112 flesch: 75 summary: Trebatius consults with Trebatius whether he should desist from writing satires or not. Horace wants to write a satire of Caesar, but his strength fails him and he can't describe the troops bristled with spears, nor the Gauls dying on their shivered darts, nor a Parthian falling from his horse. keywords: man; verses cache: horace-works_132.txt plain text: horace-works_132.txt item: #45 of 152 id: horace-works_133 author: None title: horace-works_133 date: None words: 1714 flesch: 73 summary: Ofellus the peasant taught his friends how to live on a little. He explains to them the difference between a peacock and a pullet. Ofellus also explains that the pleasure of sweating is not in the food, but in yourself. keywords: man; stomach; things; time cache: horace-works_133.txt plain text: horace-works_133.txt item: #46 of 152 id: horace-works_134 author: None title: horace-works_134 date: None words: 4184 flesch: 76 summary: Damasippus and Horace discuss the paradox of Stoic philosophy, that most men are mad. Horace is angry with himself because he is dissatisfied with his writing. He is angry because he took refuge in Eupolis at the celebration of Saturnalia out of sobriety. He used to be a connoisseur and bought a Sisyphus statue. keywords: gods; madman; man; mind; mother; senses cache: horace-works_134.txt plain text: horace-works_134.txt item: #47 of 152 id: horace-works_135 author: None title: horace-works_135 date: None words: 1151 flesch: 74 summary: Catius was trying to impress Pythagoras with some new culinary precepts, but he was interrupted by Satirical. Catius recites the precepts by heart and ridicules the absurdity of one Catius who placed the summit of human felicity in food. keywords: man; wine cache: horace-works_135.txt plain text: horace-works_135.txt item: #48 of 152 id: horace-works_136 author: None title: horace-works_136 date: None words: 1457 flesch: 77 summary: Ulysses and Tiresias are talking about the ways in which fortune hunters make use of to be appointed the heirs of rich old men. Ulysses is in dread of poverty and wants to know how he can amass riches. Tiresia advises him to use his craft to lie at catch for the last wills of old men and to go along with them. keywords: heir; man cache: horace-works_136.txt plain text: horace-works_136.txt item: #49 of 152 id: horace-works_137 author: None title: horace-works_137 date: None words: 1485 flesch: 69 summary: He wants to retire to the mountains and his castle. He asks the gods to make his cattle fat for the use of their master and to be his chief guardian. He wants to go to Rome to be bailed. He is sent away to be bails. keywords: gods; maecenas; thing; time cache: horace-works_137.txt plain text: horace-works_137.txt item: #50 of 152 id: horace-works_138 author: None title: horace-works_138 date: None words: 1487 flesch: 77 summary: Davus, one of Horace's slaves, rates his master in a droll and severe manner. Horace praises the happiness and manners of the ancient Roman people, but if god were to reduce him to to them, he would beg to be excused. keywords: davus; man; right cache: horace-works_138.txt plain text: horace-works_138.txt item: #51 of 152 id: horace-works_139 author: None title: horace-works_139 date: None words: 1031 flesch: 75 summary: Nasidienus enjoyed a feast hosted by Fundanius yesterday. Maecenas, Viscus Thurinus, Varius, Servilius Balatro, Vibidius, Porcius, and Nomentanus were the sharers of the feast. keywords: balatro; vibidius cache: horace-works_139.txt plain text: horace-works_139.txt item: #52 of 152 id: horace-works_140 author: None title: horace-works_140 date: None words: 1285 flesch: 72 summary: The poet renounces all verses of a ludicrous turn and applies himself to the study of philosophy. He is addicted to swear implicitly to the ipse-dixits of no particular master, and wherever the weather drives him, he is carried a guest. keywords: fortune; man; virtue cache: horace-works_140.txt plain text: horace-works_140.txt item: #53 of 152 id: horace-works_141 author: None title: horace-works_141 date: None words: 830 flesch: 75 summary: Lollius prefers Homer to all the philosophers as a moral writer and advises an early cultivation of virtue. The story is which, on account of Paris's intrigue, Greece is stated to be wasted in a tedious war with the barbarians, contains the tumults of foolish princes and people. Antenor gives his opinion for cutting off the cause of the war. Nestor labors to compose the differences between Achilles and Agamemnon. keywords: mind; war cache: horace-works_141.txt plain text: horace-works_141.txt item: #54 of 152 id: horace-works_142 author: None title: horace-works_142 date: None words: 422 flesch: 77 summary: Julius Florus is asked about Claudius Tiberius Nero, and some of his friends, by Epistles III to encourage him to study philosophy. He is also asked about Celsus, who has been advised to acquire stock of his own and not touch the writings of Palatine Apollo. keywords: florus cache: horace-works_142.txt plain text: horace-works_142.txt item: #55 of 152 id: horace-works_143 author: None title: horace-works_143 date: None words: 203 flesch: 72 summary: Albius is a critic of Epicurus' works. Albius is in the country writing about Pedum and writing about Cassius Parmensis. He has a beautiful form, wealth and the faculty of enjoying it. He thinks every day that shines upon him is the last. keywords: albius cache: horace-works_143.txt plain text: horace-works_143.txt item: #56 of 152 id: horace-works_144 author: None title: horace-works_144 date: None words: 378 flesch: 79 summary: He invites Torquatus to a frugal entertainment, but a cleanly and cheerful one. He will be at Archias' house about sun set. They will drink wine in the second consulship of Taurus, produced between the fenny Minturnae and Petrinum of Sinuessa. keywords: torquatus cache: horace-works_144.txt plain text: horace-works_144.txt item: #57 of 152 id: horace-works_145 author: None title: horace-works_145 date: None words: 811 flesch: 74 summary: A wise man is in love with nothing but virtue. Numicius admires nothing more than virtue. He wants to go to Agrippa's portico and the Appian way and see them well known. He wishes Mutus may not reap more grain than him from his lands gained in dowry. keywords: man; virtue cache: horace-works_145.txt plain text: horace-works_145.txt item: #58 of 152 id: horace-works_146 author: None title: horace-works_146 date: None words: 1208 flesch: 74 summary: Epistles apologizes to Maecenas for his long absence from Rome. He is absent the whole of August. He will take away with him what quantity he wants, but leaves the rest to be devoured by the hogs. keywords: ease; maecenas; philip cache: horace-works_146.txt plain text: horace-works_146.txt item: #59 of 152 id: horace-works_147 author: None title: horace-works_147 date: None words: 232 flesch: 60 summary: Epistles VIII is about Celsus Albinovanus, the attendant and secretary of Nero. He is neither well in body nor in mind. He lives neither well according to the rules of strict philosophy nor agreeably. He's displeased with his faithful physicians, angry with his friends and in love with Tibur. keywords: celsus cache: horace-works_147.txt plain text: horace-works_147.txt item: #60 of 152 id: horace-works_148 author: None title: horace-works_148 date: None words: 187 flesch: 66 summary: Septimius wants Claudius to introduce him to Nero. Claudius agrees. Septimius recommends Nero to Claudius. Nero is a friend of Claudius'. Nero will enrol him as a member of his retinue. keywords: septimius cache: horace-works_148.txt plain text: horace-works_148.txt item: #61 of 152 id: horace-works_149 author: None title: horace-works_149 date: None words: 587 flesch: 74 summary: Epistles I to Aristophanes praises a country before a city life. Epistles X salutes Fuscus that loves the town. If a plot of ground is to be first sought to raise a house on, the city is preferable to the blissful country. keywords: country cache: horace-works_149.txt plain text: horace-works_149.txt item: #62 of 152 id: horace-works_15 author: None title: horace-works_15 date: None words: 314 flesch: 77 summary: Paris is getting married to Helen. Greece will try to dissolve his nuptials and destroy his kingdom of Priam. Pallas is fitting her helmet and her shield and Pylian Nestor, Salaminian Teucer, and Sthenelus will pursue Paris. Meriones will find Paris out. keywords: thou cache: horace-works_15.txt plain text: horace-works_15.txt item: #63 of 152 id: horace-works_150 author: None title: horace-works_150 date: None words: 407 flesch: 72 summary: Bullatius wants to bring Bullatius back to Rome from Asia. He advises him to ease the disquietude of his mind not by the length of his journey, but by forming his mind into a right disposition. He asks him about Chios, Lesbos, Samos, Sardis, the royal residence of Croesus, Smyrna, Colophon, and Lebedus. keywords: sea cache: horace-works_150.txt plain text: horace-works_150.txt item: #64 of 152 id: horace-works_151 author: None title: horace-works_151 date: None words: 358 flesch: 67 summary: Iccius ridicules Pompeius Grosphus for his parsimony. The Cantabrians have fallen by the valor of Agrippa and the Armenians by that of Claudius Nero. Phraates has admitted the laws and power of Caesar. keywords: grosphus cache: horace-works_151.txt plain text: horace-works_151.txt item: #65 of 152 id: horace-works_152 author: None title: horace-works_152 date: None words: 251 flesch: 72 summary: Horace warns Vinnius to present his poems to Augustus with due decorum. He warns him not to bring an odium on his books. He also warns him to keep his burden under his arm when he arrives at Augustus' place. keywords: vinnius cache: horace-works_152.txt plain text: horace-works_152.txt item: #66 of 152 id: horace-works_153 author: None title: horace-works_153 date: None words: 562 flesch: 72 summary: Epistles XIV is angry with his steward because he dislikes the country life and wants to return to Rome. Epistles I is about his love for Lamia and for Horace, but he is reluctant to go to Rome because of disagreeable business. keywords: steward cache: horace-works_153.txt plain text: horace-works_153.txt item: #67 of 152 id: horace-works_154 author: None title: horace-works_154 date: None words: 597 flesch: 57 summary: Antonius Musa wants to go to the baths either at Velia or Salernum. Vala needs to write to Antonius to give credit to his information. Antonius wants Vala to tell him which of the two places is supported by the greatest abundance of corn and which produces the most hares. keywords: vala; velia cache: horace-works_154.txt plain text: horace-works_154.txt item: #68 of 152 id: horace-works_155 author: None title: horace-works_155 date: None words: 1037 flesch: 75 summary: Quintius describes to Quinctius the form, situation, and advantages of his country house in Epistles I to XVI. Quintius lives well, if he takes care to support the character which he bears. He is apprehensive to give more credit concerning himself to any one than himself. keywords: good; man; people cache: horace-works_155.txt plain text: horace-works_155.txt item: #69 of 152 id: horace-works_156 author: None title: horace-works_156 date: None words: 815 flesch: 68 summary: Aristophus and Scaeva have different views on the relationship between business and friendship with great men. Aristippus prefers to be of service to his friends, whereas Scaevia prefers to treat herself with more indulgence. keywords: aristippus; great cache: horace-works_156.txt plain text: horace-works_156.txt item: #70 of 152 id: horace-works_157 author: None title: horace-works_157 date: None words: 1300 flesch: 60 summary: Epistles I, XVIII and XVI are about the cultivation of the favor of great men and the acquisition of peace of mind. Lollius is over-confident, complaisant, and a jester of the lowest, couch. keywords: friend; hate; life cache: horace-works_157.txt plain text: horace-works_157.txt item: #71 of 152 id: horace-works_158 author: None title: horace-works_158 date: None words: 605 flesch: 73 summary: Maecenas criticizes some poets for imitating his works. He was the original, who set his free footsteps upon the vacant sod. He first showed to Italy the Parian iambics, following the numbers and spirit of Archilochus. keywords: maecenas cache: horace-works_158.txt plain text: horace-works_158.txt item: #72 of 152 id: horace-works_159 author: None title: horace-works_159 date: None words: 396 flesch: 75 summary: Epistles I and XX are about a book. The author wants to get abroad. He wants to keep his book, because he is dissatisfied with his life and wants to escape. He is afraid that he will be forced to give up his book or be sent away. keywords: book cache: horace-works_159.txt plain text: horace-works_159.txt item: #73 of 152 id: horace-works_16 author: None title: horace-works_16 date: None words: 227 flesch: 65 summary: Holly had offended her daughter with her iambics. Horace is desirous of exchanging severity for good nature, provided that she will become his friend and he will restore his affections. ODE XVI. to a young lady hurt her. keywords: breast cache: horace-works_16.txt plain text: horace-works_16.txt item: #74 of 152 id: horace-works_160 author: None title: horace-works_160 date: None words: 2901 flesch: 61 summary: Epistles II is about Augustus' poetry to Augustus. He is honored with the highest compliments. Romans prefer their heroes to the Grecian ones. Romans detest everything that is removed from earth and already gone by. Romans are the best writers. keywords: poet; thing; time; verses; writer; years cache: horace-works_160.txt plain text: horace-works_160.txt item: #75 of 152 id: horace-works_161 author: None title: horace-works_161 date: None words: 2580 flesch: 68 summary: Julius Florus bought a boy from Tibur and Gabii for 8,000 sesterces. The boy absconded and fled, so Florus will give him back the money. He did not send him the verses he had expected. keywords: man; manner; poets; things; verses; words cache: horace-works_161.txt plain text: horace-works_161.txt item: #76 of 152 id: horace-works_162 author: None title: horace-works_162 date: None words: 5715 flesch: 62 summary: The introduction to the Pisos' book on the art of poets and painters is full of pompous introductions with one or two verses of purple patch-work. The great majority of the time the poets are misled by the appearance of right. keywords: art; man; manner; poetry; poets; subject; thing; time; verses; words cache: horace-works_162.txt plain text: horace-works_162.txt item: #77 of 152 id: horace-works_17 author: None title: horace-works_17 date: None words: 214 flesch: 71 summary: Tyndaris lives in a secluded vale in ODE XVII to Tyndaris. The gods are her protectors. Her piety and her muse are agreeable to the gods. Here she can avoid the heat of the dog-star, sing of Penelope and Circe, and drink under the shade. keywords: tyndaris cache: horace-works_17.txt plain text: horace-works_17.txt item: #78 of 152 id: horace-works_18 author: None title: horace-works_18 date: None words: 188 flesch: 76 summary: Bacchus warns us not to exceed a moderate use of the gifts of Bacchus. The battle of the Centaurs with the Lapithae was fought in their cups. Thracians make little distinction between right and wrong. keywords: bacchus cache: horace-works_18.txt plain text: horace-works_18.txt item: #79 of 152 id: horace-works_19 author: None title: horace-works_19 date: None words: 131 flesch: 76 summary: Glycera, the mother of the Cupids, and the son of the Theban Gemele, orders Odysseus to give back his mind to its deserted loves. She will approach more propitious after a victim has been sacrificed. keywords: glycera cache: horace-works_19.txt plain text: horace-works_19.txt item: #80 of 152 id: horace-works_20 author: None title: horace-works_20 date: None words: 98 flesch: 67 summary: Maecenas will drink Sabine wine in sober cups at my house. MaecenAS will also drink Caecuban and the grape squeezed in the Calenian press when he is at home, but neither Falernian vines nor Formian hills will season his cups. keywords: cups cache: horace-works_20.txt plain text: horace-works_20.txt item: #81 of 152 id: horace-works_22 author: None title: horace-works_22 date: None words: 166 flesch: 74 summary: Aristius Fuscus is a man of upright life and pure from wickedness. He has no need of the Moorish javelins, or bow, or quiver loaded with poisoned darts. Recently he was singing Lalage, and wandered beyond his usual bounds, devoid of care, and a wolf in the Sabine wood fled from him. keywords: fuscus cache: horace-works_22.txt plain text: horace-works_22.txt item: #82 of 152 id: horace-works_23 author: None title: horace-works_23 date: None words: 94 flesch: 80 summary: Chloe shuns her mother. Chloe should quit her mother and look for a husband. ODE XXIII is written by Odes I and II and ends with Ode XXIII. It is about a fawn that is seeking its mother. keywords: chloe cache: horace-works_23.txt plain text: horace-works_23.txt item: #83 of 152 id: horace-works_24 author: None title: horace-works_24 date: None words: 169 flesch: 83 summary: Quinctilius died lamented by many good men, but more lamented by none than Virgil. Melpomene, on whom Virgil has bestowed a clear voice and the harp, can teach Virgil the mournful strains of Ode XXIV. keywords: virgil cache: horace-works_24.txt plain text: horace-works_24.txt item: #84 of 152 id: horace-works_25 author: None title: horace-works_25 date: None words: 147 flesch: 64 summary: Lydia's door no longer moves freely, but sticks lovingly to its threshold. Lydia is an old woman now. Lydia will be neglected in a lonely alley when she is old and sick. Lydia's youth is happy in ivy and growing myrtle, and dedicate sapless leaves to Eurus. keywords: lydia cache: horace-works_25.txt plain text: horace-works_25.txt item: #85 of 152 id: horace-works_26 author: None title: horace-works_26 date: None words: 93 flesch: 78 summary: Ode XXVI to AELIUS LAMIA is recited in Odes I and II. Aelius Lamia is a friend to the Muses and a lover of the Lesbian lyre. He is immortal by new strains. keywords: lamia cache: horace-works_26.txt plain text: horace-works_26.txt item: #86 of 152 id: horace-works_27 author: None title: horace-works_27 date: None words: 180 flesch: 82 summary: To quarrel over cups made for joy is Thracian. Bacchus wants to take his share of stout Falernian. Opuntian Megilla wants him to take it too, because he will not drink on any other condition. keywords: companions cache: horace-works_27.txt plain text: horace-works_27.txt item: #87 of 152 id: horace-works_28 author: None title: horace-works_28 date: None words: 350 flesch: 65 summary: Archytas, the surveyor of sea and earth, has died. The south wind, the tempestuous attendant on Orion, has sunk Archytas also in the Illyrian waves. He will not be deserted with fruitless prayers. If he makes light of committing a crime, he will be punished. keywords: sand cache: horace-works_28.txt plain text: horace-works_28.txt item: #88 of 152 id: horace-works_29 author: None title: horace-works_29 date: None words: 135 flesch: 64 summary: Iccius is preparing for a war against the kings of Saba and forming chains for the formidable Mede. He is about to exchange the noble works of Panaetius, collected from all parts, together with the whole Socratic family for Iberian armor. keywords: iccius cache: horace-works_29.txt plain text: horace-works_29.txt item: #89 of 152 id: horace-works_30 author: None title: horace-works_30 date: None words: 62 flesch: 78 summary: Venus, queen of Gnidus and Paphos, neglects her favorite Cyprus and goes to the temple of Glycera, invoking her with abundance of frankincense. She will be accompanied by her son Mercury. keywords: venus cache: horace-works_30.txt plain text: horace-works_30.txt item: #90 of 152 id: horace-works_31 author: None title: horace-works_31 date: None words: 167 flesch: 74 summary: Phoebus prays to Phoebus on the dedication of his temple. The poet asks for the rich crops of fertile Sardinia, goodly flocks of scorched Calabria, and good health. Phoebus also prunes Calenian vineyards with a hooked knife. keywords: odes cache: horace-works_31.txt plain text: horace-works_31.txt item: #91 of 152 id: horace-works_33 author: None title: horace-works_33 date: None words: 137 flesch: 64 summary: Glycera's love for Cyrus inflames Lycoris. Pholoe's love is for Cyrus. Myrtale's slave-born love entangled her in a chain, while a more eligible love courted her embraces. keywords: love cache: horace-works_33.txt plain text: horace-works_33.txt item: #92 of 152 id: horace-works_34 author: None title: horace-works_34 date: None words: 134 flesch: 57 summary: Jupiter drove his thundering horses and rapid chariot through the clear serene. Styx, and the horrid seat of detested Taenarus were shaken. Rapacious fortune has borne off the plume from one head and placed it on another. keywords: odes cache: horace-works_34.txt plain text: horace-works_34.txt item: #93 of 152 id: horace-works_35 author: None title: horace-works_35 date: None words: 305 flesch: 72 summary: Ode XXXV. to the Goddess Antium is dedicated to the god of the sea and the gods. The god is a powerful force of nature. She is a symbol of hope, fidelity, and fidelity in a white garment. She's also a goddess of war. keywords: thee cache: horace-works_35.txt plain text: horace-works_35.txt item: #94 of 152 id: horace-works_36 author: None title: horace-works_36 date: None words: 172 flesch: 55 summary: This is a joyful occasion to sacrifice with incense and music of the lyre and the blood of a heifer to the gods, the guardians of Numida. Lamia and Damalis are returning from Spain. Damalis spent his childhood under one and the same governor, and Lamia changed her gown at the same time. keywords: damalis cache: horace-works_36.txt plain text: horace-works_36.txt item: #95 of 152 id: horace-works_37 author: None title: horace-works_37 date: None words: 253 flesch: 53 summary: It is the time to carouse and beat the ground with a light foot. Before this, the queen was preparing giddy destruction for the Capitol and the subversion of the empire. Caesar pursued her in her flight from Italy with his galleys. She was able to look upon her palace, lying in ruins, with a countenance unmoved. keywords: companions cache: horace-works_37.txt plain text: horace-works_37.txt item: #96 of 152 id: horace-works_38 author: None title: horace-works_38 date: None words: 71 flesch: 73 summary: In Ode XXXVIII to his servant, the god detests the pomp of the Persians and detests chaplets woven with the rind of the linden. He wants his servant to make no laborious additions to the plain myrtle. keywords: servant cache: horace-works_38.txt plain text: horace-works_38.txt item: #97 of 152 id: horace-works_39 author: None title: horace-works_39 date: None words: 308 flesch: 62 summary: Asinius Pollio is writing a play about the civil commotion in Italy. It is full of danger and hazard. He will be absent from the theaters for a while. Then he will resume his work in the tragic style of Athens. keywords: pollio cache: horace-works_39.txt plain text: horace-works_39.txt item: #98 of 152 id: horace-works_41 author: None title: horace-works_41 date: None words: 235 flesch: 61 summary: Quintus Dellius was born to die. He will depart from his numerous groves and his house and villa in order to leave an heir to inherit his wealth. He is the victim of Pluto. All people are driven toward the same quarter. keywords: dellius cache: horace-works_41.txt plain text: horace-works_41.txt item: #99 of 152 id: horace-works_42 author: None title: horace-works_42 date: None words: 182 flesch: 69 summary: Xanthias Phoceus is jealous of Phyllis, his daughter-in-law. He should be content with his love for her and not be jealous of her parents. ODE IV. to Xanthias Pheceus explains the history of the love affairs of the gods. keywords: phoceus cache: horace-works_42.txt plain text: horace-works_42.txt item: #100 of 152 id: horace-works_43 author: None title: horace-works_43 date: None words: 188 flesch: 62 summary: Lalage is not yet fit to be broken to the yoke, nor is she equal to the duties of a partner, nor can she support the weight of the bull rushing to enjoyment. Lalage will soon seek a husband. keywords: odes ii cache: horace-works_43.txt plain text: horace-works_43.txt item: #101 of 152 id: horace-works_44 author: None title: horace-works_44 date: None words: 175 flesch: 71 summary: In ODE VI. to Septimus, Odes II and III, Septimus invites him to go with him to a place where the honey yields not to the Hymettian, and the olive rivals the verdant Venafrian. keywords: septimus cache: horace-works_44.txt plain text: horace-works_44.txt item: #102 of 152 id: horace-works_45 author: None title: horace-works_45 date: None words: 233 flesch: 74 summary: Pompey was reduced to the last extremity in the war which Brutus carried on. He and Pompey went to the battle of Phillippi together with Brutus. Now Pompey is going back to war. He will leave his limbs under Pompey's laurel. keywords: thee cache: horace-works_45.txt plain text: horace-works_45.txt item: #103 of 152 id: horace-works_46 author: None title: horace-works_46 date: None words: 205 flesch: 73 summary: Barine violated her vows, but she shines out more charming than before. Venus, Cupid, and the good-natured nymphs laugh at her. The matrons are in dread of her, because of her children and slaves. keywords: barine cache: horace-works_46.txt plain text: horace-works_46.txt item: #104 of 152 id: horace-works_47 author: None title: horace-works_47 date: None words: 187 flesch: 62 summary: Showers do not perpetually pour down upon the rough fields, nor do hurricanes forever harass the Caspian Sea. The effects of Valgius' love for Mystes do not cease at Vesper or when he flies the rapid approach of the sun. keywords: valgius cache: horace-works_47.txt plain text: horace-works_47.txt item: #105 of 152 id: horace-works_48 author: None title: horace-works_48 date: None words: 181 flesch: 84 summary: Jupiter brings the hideous winters back and that takes them away. If it is ill with us now, it will not be so hereafter. In narrow circumstances appear in high spirits, and undaunted. In the same way, you will prudently contract your sails. keywords: licinius cache: horace-works_48.txt plain text: horace-works_48.txt item: #106 of 152 id: horace-works_49 author: None title: horace-works_49 date: None words: 188 flesch: 71 summary: Youth and beauty fly away, while sapless old age expels the wanton loves and gentle sleep. The same glory does not always remain to the vernal flowers, nor does the ruddy moon shine. Bacchus dissipates preying cares. keywords: quintius cache: horace-works_49.txt plain text: horace-works_49.txt item: #107 of 152 id: horace-works_50 author: None title: horace-works_50 date: None words: 225 flesch: 57 summary: Maecenas wrote ODE XII to Maecenasmus. He was celebrating Lycimnia, his mistress. He would change her hair for all the rich Achaemenes, Mygdonian wealth of fertile Phrygia, or all the dwellings of the Arabians. keywords: maecenas cache: horace-works_50.txt plain text: horace-works_50.txt item: #108 of 152 id: horace-works_51 author: None title: horace-works_51 date: None words: 316 flesch: 69 summary: No man is sufficiently cautious at all hours. The Carthaginian sailor thoroughly dreads the Bosphorus. The soldier dreads arrows and the fleet retreat of the Parthian. The unexpected assault of death has carried off, and will carry off, the world in general. keywords: thee cache: horace-works_51.txt plain text: horace-works_51.txt item: #109 of 152 id: horace-works_52 author: None title: horace-works_52 date: None words: 212 flesch: 65 summary: Postumus is dying. Pluto confines Geryon and Tityus with the Stygian stream. Postumus will be visited by Danaus, and Sisyphus, the son of Aeolus, doomed to eternal toil. keywords: postumus cache: horace-works_52.txt plain text: horace-works_52.txt item: #110 of 152 id: horace-works_53 author: None title: horace-works_53 date: None words: 186 flesch: 78 summary: The palace-like edifices will leave but a few acres for the plough, ponds of wider extent than the Lucrine lake will be every where to be seen, and the barren plane- tree will supplant the elms. It was not prescribed by the institutes of Romulus and Cato, and ancient custom. Their private income was contracted, while that of the community was great. keywords: time cache: horace-works_53.txt plain text: horace-works_53.txt item: #111 of 152 id: horace-works_54 author: None title: horace-works_54 date: None words: 306 flesch: 75 summary: Grosphus is caught in the Aegean Sea and supplicates to the gods for repose. Neither regal treasures nor the consul's officer can remove the wretched tumults of the mind. Neither anxiety nor sordid avarice robs him of gentle sleep. keywords: repose cache: horace-works_54.txt plain text: horace-works_54.txt item: #112 of 152 id: horace-works_55 author: None title: horace-works_55 date: None words: 251 flesch: 77 summary: Maecenas wants to leave with Thoti, but Thoti wants to keep him. Thoti is worried about the future of their relationship and their relationship with the gods. MaecenAS' horoscopes agree with their astrological omens. keywords: thou cache: horace-works_55.txt plain text: horace-works_55.txt item: #113 of 152 id: horace-works_56 author: None title: horace-works_56 date: None words: 287 flesch: 74 summary: Neither ivory nor gold nor a fretted ceiling adorned with gold glitters in my house, nor Hymettian beams rest upon pillars cut out of Africa, nor do ladies spin Laconian purple for my use. The man of fortune makes his court to me, who is but poor. I importune the gods no further, nor require of my friend in power any larger enjoyments. keywords: avarice cache: horace-works_56.txt plain text: horace-works_56.txt item: #114 of 152 id: horace-works_57 author: None title: horace-works_57 date: None words: 255 flesch: 73 summary: Evoe's mind is filled with Bacchus' songs. She sings of Bacchanalian priestess, fountain of wine, and rivulets flowing with milk. She also sings of the palace of Pentheus demolished with no light ruin, and the perdition of Thracian. keywords: bacchus cache: horace-works_57.txt plain text: horace-works_57.txt item: #115 of 152 id: horace-works_58 author: None title: horace-works_58 date: None words: 178 flesch: 70 summary: Maecenas is transformed into a white bird. He will visit the shores of the murmuring Bosphorus, the Gzetulean Syrtes, and the Hyperborean plains, and land the remotest Gelonians. keywords: maecenas cache: horace-works_58.txt plain text: horace-works_58.txt item: #116 of 152 id: horace-works_59 author: None title: horace-works_59 date: None words: 371 flesch: 56 summary: The dominion of dread sovereigns is over their own subjects, that of Jupiter is over sovereigns themselves. Fate, by the impartial law of nature, is allotted both to the conspicuous and the obscure. One man arranges trees in regular rows, to a greater extent than another. keywords: man cache: horace-works_59.txt plain text: horace-works_59.txt item: #117 of 152 id: horace-works_60 author: None title: horace-works_60 date: None words: 266 flesch: 69 summary: The ODE AGAINST THE DEGENERATION OF THE ROMAN YOUTH is recited in ODE II AGAIN AGAIN. It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country, but death even pursues the man that flies from him. keywords: youth cache: horace-works_60.txt plain text: horace-works_60.txt item: #118 of 152 id: horace-works_61 author: None title: horace-works_61 date: None words: 556 flesch: 59 summary: Romulus escaped Acheron on the horses of Mars. Juno has spoken what the gods in full conclave approve. Troy, Troy, a fatal and lewd judge, and a foreign woman, have been reduced to ashes. Priam's perjured family repel the warlike Grecians by the aid of Hector. keywords: gods; troy cache: horace-works_61.txt plain text: horace-works_61.txt item: #119 of 152 id: horace-works_62 author: None title: horace-works_62 date: None words: 605 flesch: 61 summary: The Ode to Calliope is sung by Odes III, IV and V. It is dedicated to the goddess who rules the earth and the stormy main, the cities and the drepts. Odes 3, 4 and 5 are about the journey of Odes. keywords: calliope; gods cache: horace-works_62.txt plain text: horace-works_62.txt item: #120 of 152 id: horace-works_63 author: None title: horace-works_63 date: None words: 435 flesch: 62 summary: In ODE V. ON THE RECOVERY OF THE STANDARDS FROM PHRAATES we believe from Jupiter's thundering that Jupiter has dominion in the heavens and Augustus shall be esteemed a present deity. The soldiers of Crassus lived as a degraded husband with a barbarian wife. Regulus rejected the embrace of his virtuous wife and his little sons like one degraded. keywords: arms cache: horace-works_63.txt plain text: horace-works_63.txt item: #121 of 152 id: horace-works_64 author: None title: horace-works_64 date: None words: 373 flesch: 65 summary: The gods have inflicted many evils on Italy. Monaeses, and the band of Pacorus repelled our inauspicious attacks. Dacian and Ethiopian have almost demolished the city engaged in civil broils. The marriageable virgin delights to be taught the Ionic dances, and cherishes unchaste desires from her infancy. keywords: gods cache: horace-works_64.txt plain text: horace-works_64.txt item: #122 of 152 id: horace-works_65 author: None title: horace-works_65 date: None words: 255 flesch: 66 summary: Gyges is driven as far as Oricum by the southern winds. He is lonely, because his mistress, Chloe, is sighing for him. Asterie's neighbor Enipeus may be too pleasing for her, so she should be wary of him. keywords: asterie cache: horace-works_65.txt plain text: horace-works_65.txt item: #123 of 152 id: horace-works_66 author: None title: horace-works_66 date: None words: 225 flesch: 68 summary: Maecenas made a vow of a joyous banquet and a white goat to Bacchus on the calends of March. He will take a hundred cups on account of the safety of his friend, and continue the wakeful lamps even to day-light. He should not be too solicitous as a private person. keywords: maecenas cache: horace-works_66.txt plain text: horace-works_66.txt item: #124 of 152 id: horace-works_67 author: None title: horace-works_67 date: None words: 205 flesch: 83 summary: Horus was happier than the Persian monarch. Lydia flourished more eminent than the Roman Ilia. Chloe is skillful in sweet modulations and a mistress of the lyre. Calais is the son of the Thurian Ornitus. Lydia would love to live with Chloe. keywords: lydia cache: horace-works_67.txt plain text: horace-works_67.txt item: #125 of 152 id: horace-works_68 author: None title: horace-works_68 date: None words: 181 flesch: 75 summary: Lyce is in a state of marriage with a barbarian. Lyce's Tyrrhenian father did not beget her to be as inaccessible as Penelope to her wooers. This side of Lyce will not always be able to endure her threshold and the rain. keywords: lyce cache: horace-works_68.txt plain text: horace-works_68.txt item: #126 of 152 id: horace-works_69 author: None title: horace-works_69 date: None words: 370 flesch: 70 summary: Mercury is the tutor of Amphion. Lyde is inexperienced in nuptial loves and unripe for a brisk husband. Ixion and Tityus smiled with a reluctant aspect, while Mercury soothed the daughters of Danaus with his harmonious singing, and their vessel remained dry. Lydes is guilty of the crime of the virgins. keywords: mercury cache: horace-works_69.txt plain text: horace-works_69.txt item: #127 of 152 id: horace-works_70 author: None title: horace-works_70 date: None words: 133 flesch: 67 summary: Neobule is a better horseman than Bellerophon himself. He is also skilled to strike with his javelin the stags, flying through the open plains in frightened herd and active to surprise wild boar lurking in the deep thicket. keywords: neobule cache: horace-works_70.txt plain text: horace-works_70.txt item: #128 of 152 id: horace-works_71 author: None title: horace-works_71 date: None words: 119 flesch: 69 summary: To the Bandusian fountain of Bandusia, ODE XIII. to-morrow there will be a kid. whose forehead will be pouting with new horns. The offspring of the wanton flock will tinge the streams with scarlet blood. keywords: thou cache: horace-works_71.txt plain text: horace-works_71.txt item: #129 of 152 id: horace-works_73 author: None title: horace-works_73 date: None words: 119 flesch: 82 summary: Chloris, wife of the indigent Ibycus, should put an end to her wickedness and her infamous practices. Chloris' daughter with more propriety attacks the young men's apartments. The love of Nothus makes her frisk about like a wanton goat. keywords: chloris cache: horace-works_73.txt plain text: horace-works_73.txt item: #130 of 152 id: horace-works_74 author: None title: horace-works_74 date: None words: 357 flesch: 71 summary: Maecenas wants to leave the side of the wealthy and join the kingdom of Alyattes to the Phrygian plains as a deserter. He will be better able to extend his small revenues by contracting his desires than if he joined the kingdom. keywords: wealth cache: horace-works_74.txt plain text: horace-works_74.txt item: #131 of 152 id: horace-works_75 author: None title: horace-works_75 date: None words: 135 flesch: 74 summary: Aelius is descended from the ancient Lamus, who is said to have possessed the Formian walls and Liris gliding on the shores of Marica. Tomorrow Aelius will indulge his genius with wine and with a pig of two months old. keywords: aelius cache: horace-works_75.txt plain text: horace-works_75.txt item: #132 of 152 id: horace-works_76 author: None title: horace-works_76 date: None words: 130 flesch: 71 summary: Ode XVIII. To Faunus is a hymn to the god of the flying nymphs. He is a lover of the young offspring of his flocks. The village keeps holiday in the fields, together with the oxen free from toil, and the wood scatters its rural leaves for him. keywords: thee cache: horace-works_76.txt plain text: horace-works_76.txt item: #133 of 152 id: horace-works_77 author: None title: horace-works_77 date: None words: 233 flesch: 82 summary: The love of Glycera slowly consumes Telephus. He raves about the Phrygian flute and the battles that were fought at Troy. He wants brimmers thrice three for each of the Graces and for midnight for Murena. keywords: telephus cache: horace-works_77.txt plain text: horace-works_77.txt item: #134 of 152 id: horace-works_78 author: None title: horace-works_78 date: None words: 129 flesch: 72 summary: Pyrrhhus and Nearchus are engaged in a battle for the spoils of war. Pyrrhus is a timorous ravisher. Nireus was ravished from the watery Ida. The umpire of the combat is reported to have freshened his shoulder. keywords: pyrrhus cache: horace-works_78.txt plain text: horace-works_78.txt item: #135 of 152 id: horace-works_79 author: None title: horace-works_79 date: None words: 195 flesch: 73 summary: Corvinus will bring the mellowest wine to his friend Manlius, who is imbued in the Socratic lectures. The virtue of Cato is recorded to have been frequently warmed with wine. Bacchus and Venus are in good humour. keywords: thou cache: horace-works_79.txt plain text: horace-works_79.txt item: #136 of 152 id: horace-works_80 author: None title: horace-works_80 date: None words: 65 flesch: 76 summary: At the completion of every year, Dana will present the pine that overshadows her villa with the blood of a boar- pig meditating his oblique attack, as she promises to do in ODE XXII. keywords: odes cache: horace-works_80.txt plain text: horace-works_80.txt item: #137 of 152 id: horace-works_81 author: None title: horace-works_81 date: None words: 150 flesch: 73 summary: Phidyle appeases the household gods with frankincense and this year's fruits and a ravening swine. Phidyle is not required to propitiate the gods with a great slaughter of sheep to pacify them. keywords: phidyle cache: horace-works_81.txt plain text: horace-works_81.txt item: #138 of 152 id: horace-works_82 author: None title: horace-works_82 date: None words: 470 flesch: 63 summary: In ODE XXIV. to the COVETH, ODES III, the god tells us to cast away wealth for the good of the people, and to punish sin with punishment. The god asks if there is any one willing to remove our impious slaughters and civil rage. keywords: virtue cache: horace-works_82.txt plain text: horace-works_82.txt item: #139 of 152 id: horace-works_84 author: None title: horace-works_84 date: None words: 91 flesch: 86 summary: The wall that guards the left side of the statue of sea-born Venus will have Chloe's arms and her lyre discharged from warfare. ODE XXVI. to Venus asks the goddess to cut Chloe's haughty neck with her high-raised lash. keywords: venus cache: horace-works_84.txt plain text: horace-works_84.txt item: #140 of 152 id: horace-works_85 author: None title: horace-works_85 date: None words: 581 flesch: 79 summary: Galatea is going to the sea. She will invoke from the east, with her prayers, the raven forbidding by his croaking, before the bird which presages impending showers, revisits the stagnant pools. Europa trusted her fair side to the deceitful bull and turned pale at the sea abounding with monsters. Galatea was busying about flowers in the meadows lately. Iapyx is guilty. keywords: sea cache: horace-works_85.txt plain text: horace-works_85.txt item: #141 of 152 id: horace-works_86 author: None title: horace-works_86 date: None words: 132 flesch: 85 summary: On the festal day of Neptune, Lyde will bring out of the store-house the loitering cask from the consul Bibulus. Lyde and Neptune will sing by turns, Neptune and the green locks of the Nereids, Latona and the darts of Cynthia. keywords: lyde cache: horace-works_86.txt plain text: horace-works_86.txt item: #142 of 152 id: horace-works_87 author: None title: horace-works_87 date: None words: 500 flesch: 68 summary: Maecenas is the progeny of Tuscan kings. He is in an anxious dread for Rome and the preparations the Seres and the Bactrians subject to Cyrus, and the factious Tanais are making. A wise deity shrouds the events of the time to come. keywords: maecenas; sea cache: horace-works_87.txt plain text: horace-works_87.txt item: #143 of 152 id: horace-works_88 author: None title: horace-works_88 date: None words: 144 flesch: 67 summary: I have completed a monument more lasting than brass and sublime than the pyramids. Melpomene should assume the pride which your merits have acquired and crown my hair with the Delphic laurel. I shall be acknowledged as having originally adapted the Aeolic verse to Italian measures. keywords: odes cache: horace-works_88.txt plain text: horace-works_88.txt item: #144 of 152 id: horace-works_89 author: None title: horace-works_89 date: None words: 299 flesch: 78 summary: Venus is stirring up tumults in ODE I. He should go to the house of Paulus Maximus. He will be erected in marble under a citron dome near the Alban lake. There he will be surrounded by the youths twice a day celebrating his divinity. Ligurinus is not the man he used to be. keywords: thee cache: horace-works_89.txt plain text: horace-works_89.txt item: #145 of 152 id: horace-works_90 author: None title: horace-works_90 date: None words: 459 flesch: 54 summary: Pindar rages and rushes on, while Antonius sings the gods and kings. Antonius is a diminutive creature. He will sing of Caesar when he drags the fierce Sygambri along the sacred hill, and he will join the general acclamation. keywords: caesar; gods cache: horace-works_90.txt plain text: horace-works_90.txt item: #146 of 152 id: horace-works_92 author: None title: horace-works_92 date: None words: 569 flesch: 53 summary: The Ode IV. The Praise of Drusus is about a young man with early youth and hereditary vigor. The Rhaeti and the Vindelici saw him carrying on the war under the Alps. He was subdued by the conduct of a youth. keywords: gods; youth cache: horace-works_92.txt plain text: horace-works_92.txt item: #147 of 152 id: horace-works_93 author: None title: horace-works_93 date: None words: 345 flesch: 72 summary: Odes V. to Augustus calls for the return of the chieftain of the Roman people, who has been absent for too long. He is the best guardian of Roman people and their gods. He's responsible for many good things for Roman people. keywords: day cache: horace-works_93.txt plain text: horace-works_93.txt item: #148 of 152 id: horace-works_94 author: None title: horace-works_94 date: None words: 328 flesch: 59 summary: Phoebus gave me the art of composing verse and the title of poet. Phoebus, tutor of the harmonious Thalia and Agyieus, gave me genius and the name Poet. Poet recited an ode acceptable to the gods when the secular period brought back festal days. keywords: phoebus cache: horace-works_94.txt plain text: horace-works_94.txt item: #149 of 152 id: horace-works_95 author: None title: horace-works_95 date: None words: 238 flesch: 79 summary: The snows are gone, the herbage has returned to the fields and the leaves have fallen. The earth changes its appearance and the decreasing rivers glide along their banks. The colds are mitigated by the zephyrs, the summer follows close upon the spring and the autumn is shortly to die itself. keywords: returns cache: horace-works_95.txt plain text: horace-works_95.txt item: #150 of 152 id: horace-works_96 author: None title: horace-works_96 date: None words: 291 flesch: 60 summary: Odes IV. Ode VIII. to Censorinus: I would like to give him goblets, vases, tripods, statuary, etc., but he doesn't need them. He likes to give verses. keywords: censorinus cache: horace-works_96.txt plain text: horace-works_96.txt item: #151 of 152 id: horace-works_97 author: None title: horace-works_97 date: None words: 398 flesch: 56 summary: Marcus Lollius was born on the far-resounding Aufidus. He is an avenger of avaricious fraud, and a proof against money. He prefers the honorable to the profitable. He has rejected with disdainful brow the bribes of wicked men. keywords: muses cache: horace-works_97.txt plain text: horace-works_97.txt item: #152 of 152 id: horace-works_99 author: None title: horace-works_99 date: None words: 276 flesch: 55 summary: Phyllis is invited to Maecenas' house on the Ides. He has a cask full of wine, parsley, ivy and ivy, and a store of ivy. Phyllis has a rich and buxom girl possessed herself of Telephus, a youth above her rank. keywords: day cache: horace-works_99.txt plain text: horace-works_99.txt