Quintus Horatius Flaccus, The Satires, Epistles & Art of Poetry of Horace…
“ Rude boys are pulling at your beard, I guess. Those commentators are clearly right who understand "vellunt," not of what the boys are apt to do, but of what they are actually doing, while the Stoic is talking and making himself out to be a king. ”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, The Satires, Epistles & Art of Poetry of Horace…
“ Leave poets free to perish as they will. Following Mr. Howes and probably others who have written on the Ars Poetica, though apparently not the latest editors, I regard all the words from "Deus immortalis haberi" to the end as part of Horace's speech to the man who thinks of rescuing the mad poet. Much of the humour of what follows, e.g. "Nec semel hoc fecit," "Nec satis apparet," &c. would, it seems to me, be lost on any other supposition. ”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, The Satires, Epistles & Art of Poetry of Horace…
“ Howes has got over the difficulty neatly:— Till my opponent, by fair logic beat, Shall find the ground sink fast beneath his feet. Page 151. Enjoys his ease, nor cares how he redeems The gorgeous promise of his peacock dreams. I suppose the meaning to be this: Ennius, as appears from his own remains and the notices of him in other writers, began his Annals with a dream in which the spirit of Homer appeared to him, and told him that, after passing through various other bodies, including those of Pythagoras and a peacock, it was now animating that of the Roman poet himself. ”
