Summary

Portrait of Horace Horace,  Odes — Ode 1.24

“ What if you could play the lyre heard by the trees
more charmingly than Thracian Orpheus?
Surely the blood would not return to the empty,
once Mercury, with his dreadful staff; he has rounded it in his gloomy herd,
(Mercury) not gentle (enough) to undo fates with prayers.
This is hard, but whatever it is,
an offense to correct becomes lighter with patience.
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