        item: #1 of 152
          id: horace-works_02
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       title: horace-works_02
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       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.
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          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.
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        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
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          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
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          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
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        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.
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          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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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.
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          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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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      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
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          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. 
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        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.
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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