id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
horace-works_90		horace-works_90			.txt	text/plain	459	11	54	Like a river pouring down from a mountain, which sudden rains have increased beyond its accustomed banks, such the deep- mouthed Pindar rages and rushes on immeasurable, sure to merit Apollo 's laurel, whether he rolls down new- formed phrases through the daring dithyrambic, and is borne on in numbers exempt from rule: whether he sings the gods, and kings, the offspring of the gods, by whom the Centaurs perished with a just destruction,[ by whom] was quenched the flame of the dreadful Chimaera; or celebrates those whom the palm,[ in the Olympic games] at Elis, brings home exalted to the skies, wrestler or steed, and presents them with a gift preferable to a hundred statues: or deplores some youth, snatched[ by death] from his mournful bride-- he elevates both his strength, and courage, and golden morals to the stars, and rescues him from the murky grave. Whoever endeavors, O Iulus, to rival Pindar, makes an effort on wings fastened with wax by art Daedalean, about to communicate his name to the glassy sea.	cache/horace-works_90.txt	txt/horace-works_90.txt
