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So lived the man who was regarded by his contemporaries and by posterity as the true model of a Roman burgess, and who appeared as it were the living embodiment of the certainly somewhat coarse-grained energy and probity of Rome in contrast with Greek indolence and Greek immorality; as a later Roman poet says: -Sperne mores transmarinos, mille habent offucias.
It was all the change out of a twenty-pound note which dear old Binnie gave me before we set out, with a quotation out of Horace, you know, about Neque tu choreas sperne puer. O me! how guilty I felt as I walked home at ever so much o'clock to the Hotel de la Terrasse, and sneaked into our apartment! But the Colonel was sound asleep.
"Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum, Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolore voluptas." It is clear then that in the Odes, for the most part, he is an artist not a preacher. We must not look to them for his deepest sentiments, but for such, and such only, as admitted an effective lyric treatment.
So lived the man who was regarded by his contemporaries and by posterity as the true model of a Roman burgess, and who appeared as it were the living embodiment of the certainly somewhat coarse-grained energy and probity of Rome in contrast with Greek indolence and Greek immorality; as a later Roman poet says: -Sperne mores transmarinos, mille habent offucias.
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