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The works of Horace : with English notes, critical and ... - Cristo Raul

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Q. HORATII FLACCI<br />

SERMONUM<br />

LIBEK PEIMUS.<br />

Satika I.<br />

IN AVABOS.<br />

Qti fit, Msecenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem<br />

Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, ilia<br />

Contentus vivat, laudet diversa sequentes ?<br />

O fortunati mercatores I gravis annis<br />

Miles ait, multo jam ftaotus membra labore. 6<br />

Contra meroator, navim jactantibus austris,<br />

Militia est potior I Quid enim ? conourritur : hora;<br />

Momento aut cita mors venit aut victoria lasta.<br />

Agricolam laudjit juris legumque peritus.<br />

Sub galli oantum consultor ubi ostia pulsat. 10<br />

Ille, datis vadibus qui rure extractus in urbem est.<br />

Solos feUces viventes clamat in urbe.<br />

Cetera de genere hoc, adeo sunt multa, loquacem<br />

Delassare valent Fabium. Ne te morer, audi<br />

Quo rem deducam. Si quis Deus, En ego, dicat, 15<br />

Jamt fada/m quod vuUis : eris tu, qui mqdo miles,<br />

Mercator : tu, consultus modo^rusticus : hincvos,<br />

Vos hinc mutatis discedite partibus. Eia .'<br />

Quid siatis?—nolint. -Atqui licet esse beatis.<br />

Quid causBB est, merito quin illis Jupiter ambas 20<br />

Iratus bucoas inflet, neque se fore postbac<br />

Tam facilem dicat, votis ut praebeat aurem ?

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