"an, haec animos aerugo et cura peculi / cum semel imbuerit, speremus carmina fingi / posse linenda cedro et levi servanda cupresso?"
— Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] (65 BC - 8 BC)
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Date
c. 10-8 BC
Metaphor
"an, haec animos aerugo et cura peculi / cum semel imbuerit, speremus carmina fingi / posse linenda cedro et levi servanda cupresso?"
Metaphor in Context
[...] an, haec animos aerugo et cura peculi
cum semel imbuerit, speremus carmina fingi
posse linenda cedro et levi servanda cupresso?
(ll. 330-332)
[When this sordid rust and hankering after wealth has once tainted their minds, can we expect that such verses should be made as are worthy of being anointed with the oil of cedar, and kept in the well-polished cypress?]
cum semel imbuerit, speremus carmina fingi
posse linenda cedro et levi servanda cupresso?
(ll. 330-332)
[When this sordid rust and hankering after wealth has once tainted their minds, can we expect that such verses should be made as are worthy of being anointed with the oil of cedar, and kept in the well-polished cypress?]
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Citation
Text and translation from Perseus: drawn from The Works of Horace, trans. Christopher Smart (Philadelphia. Joseph Whetham, 1836). <Link to perseus.org><Link to Google Books>
See also the Ars Poetica at The Latin Library.
See also the Ars Poetica at The Latin Library.
Date of Entry
07/08/2015
