Thursday, November 12, 2026

 

Forbidden Couplings

Horace, Ars Poetica 11-13 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
We know it: this licence we poets claim and in our turn we grant the like;
but not so far that savage should mate with tame,
or serpents couple with birds, lambs with tigers.

scinius, et hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim;
sed non ut placidis coeant immitia, non ut
serpentes avibus geminentur, tigribus agni.
The commentaries of C.O. Brink and Niall Rudd on these lines are disappointing.

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