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horace-works_105		horace-works_105			.txt	text/plain	537	13	58	But if a chaste wife, assisting on her part[ in the management] of the house, and beloved children( such as is the Sabine, or the sun- burned spouse of the industrious Apulian), piles up the sacred hearth with old wood, just at the approach of her weary husband; and, shutting up the fruitful cattle in the woven hurdles, milks dry their distended udders: and, drawing this year 's wine out of a well- seasoned cask, prepares the unbought collation: not the Lucrine oysters could delight me more, nor the turbot, nor the scar, should the tempestuous winter drive any from the eastern floods to this sea: not the turkey, nor the Asiatic wild- fowl, can come into my stomach more agreeably, than the olive gathered from the richest branches from the trees, or the sorrel that loves the meadows, or mallows salubrious for a sickly body, or a lamb slain at the feast of Terminus, or a kid rescued from the wolf. Among such joys as these, who does not forget those mischievous anxieties, which are the property of love.	cache/horace-works_105.txt	txt/horace-works_105.txt
