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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, De Arte Poetica liber

Editions and translations: Latin | English (ed. C. Smart)
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in verbis etiam tenuis cautusque serendis
45
hoc amet, hoc spernat promissi carminis auctor.
dixeris egregie, notum si callida verbum
reddiderit iunctura novum. si forte necesse est
indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum et
50
fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis,
continget dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter,
et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem, si
Graeco fonte cadent parce detorta. quid autem
Caecilio Plautoque dabit Romanus ademptum
55
Vergilio Varioque? ego cur, adquirere pauca
si possum, invideor, cum lingua Catonis et Enni
sermonem patrium ditaverit et nova rerum
nomina protulerit? licuit semperque licebit
signatum praesente nota producere nomen.
60
ut silvae foliis pronos mutantur in annos,
prima cadunt: ita verborum vetus interit aetas,
et iuvenum ritu florent modo nata vigentque.
debemur morti nos nostraque: sive receptus
terra Neptunus classes Aquilonibus arcet,
65
regis opus, sterilisve diu palus aptaque remis
vicinas urbes alit et grave sentit aratrum,
seu cursum mutavit iniquum frugibus amnis
doctus iter melius: mortalia facta peribunt,
nedum sermonum stet honos et gratia vivax.
70
multa renascentur quae iam cecidere cadentque
quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus,
quem penes arbitrium est et ius et norma loquendi.

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Cross references from Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges (eds. J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard, Benj. L. D'Ooge):
2, 435 [Adverbs and Prepositions]

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Horace. The Works of Horace. C. Smart. Philadelphia. Joseph Whetham. 1836.


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