Saturday, February 06, 2021

 

Opposites

Horace, Epistles 1.18.89-90 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
The grave dislike the gay, the merry the grave,
the quick the staid, the lazy the stirring man of action.

oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque iocosi,
sedatum celeres, agilem navumque remissi.



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