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On an Upright Life
AD ARISTIUM FUSCUM
Horace: Book I, Ode 22.
Horace: Book I, Ode 22.
[Those whom the original verbiage may confuse are advised to read only the italics: those who detest our efforts may read only Q. H. Flaccus’s words, set of course in Roman; and the rest may combine them.]
(Integer vitae) A man who’s on the level,
(Non eget . . . arcu) He needn’t have a fear;
(Nec venenatis) Not arrows of the devil
(Fusce, pharetra) Can harm a conscience clear—
(Non eget . . . arcu) He needn’t have a fear;
(Nec venenatis) Not arrows of the devil
(Fusce, pharetra) Can harm a conscience clear—
(Sive per Syrtes) Whether he’s in Peoria,
(Sive facturus) New York or Newtonville,
(Caucasum vel) East Orange or Emporia,
(Lambit Hydaspes) Or Pocahontas, Ill.
(Sive facturus) New York or Newtonville,
(Caucasum vel) East Orange or Emporia,
(Lambit Hydaspes) Or Pocahontas, Ill.
(Namque me . . . lupus) For once, when I was singing,
(Dum meam . . . Lalagen) A wolf came up to me;
(Terminum curis) He heard my lyric ringing,
(Fugit inermem) And fled immejitlee.
(Dum meam . . . Lalagen) A wolf came up to me;
(Terminum curis) He heard my lyric ringing,
(Fugit inermem) And fled immejitlee.
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