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repair your ill fortune by art. Then followed the flaves, bearing on a large charger the feveral limbs of a crane, befprinkled with much falt, not without flour, and the liver of a white goose fed with fattening figs, and the wings of hares torn off, as a much daintier dish, than if one eats them with the loins. Then we faw black-birds also set before us with * fcorched breasts, and ring-doves without the rumps: Delicious morfels, did not the master give us the history of their causes and natures: whom we in revenge fled from, fo as to taste nothing at all; as if Canidia, more venomous than African ferpents, had poisoned them with her breath.

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Q. Horatii Flacci

EPISTOLARUM

LIBER I.

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Se, omiffis verfibus ludicris, totum esse in philofophia perdifcenda, que franare cupiditates et omnia virtuti poft

babere docet.

RIMA dicte mihi, fumma dicende Camena Spectatum, fatis, et donatum jam rude, quæris, Mæcenas, iterum antiquo me includere ludo. Non eadem eft ætas, non mens. Veianius, armis Herculis ad poftem fixis, latet abditus agro,

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The poet renounces all verfes of a ludicrous turn, and refolves to apply bimself wholly to the ftudy of philofophy, which teaches to bridle the defires, and poftpone every thing to virtue.

ECENAS, the fubject of my former fong, just

Mly entitled to my lateft, you seek to engage me

again in the old lifts, having been tried fufficiently, and now presented with the rod of freedom? My age is not the fame, nor is my genius. Veianius, his arms confecrated on a pillar of Hercules's temple, lives fnugly retired in the country, that he may not,

The Rudis was a wooden foil given to the gladiators when they were dismissed from the flage.

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