human
Can you continue this poem for me?
  notwithstanding the disapprobation of Jupiter.
soldiery shall have accomplished, under your command; either on
ship-board or on horseback. We humble writers, O Agrippa, neither
resound, either in the shady borders of Helicon, or on the top of
clear-shining constellation as soon as it has shone forth to the
conquered, and Fabricius.
sacrificed.
To quarrel over your cups, which were made for joy, is downright
unconquered, and are forming chains for the formidable Mede. What
betrothed husband? What boy from the court shall be made your
deceitful ashes: let therefore the muse that presides over severe
strangers.
Septimus, who art ready to go with me, even to Gades, and to the
Cantabrian, still untaught to bear our yoke, and the inhospitable
good-natured nymphs laugh, and cruel Cupid, who is perpetually
shoulders, imbibes, with a more greedy ear, battles and banished
I abominate the uninitiated vulgar, and keep them at a distance.
Preserve a religious silence: I, the priest of the Muses, sing to
Thou shalt atone, O Roman, for the sins of your ancestors, though
remonstrates with him how a perfidious woman urged the credulous
Augustus Caesar, O ye people, who was lately said, like another
You wife of the indigent Ibycus, at length put an end to your
wickedness, and your infamous practices. Cease to sport among the
she-goat. The wool shorn near the famous Luceria becomes you now
guiltless wife spares her motherless step-children, nor does the
Melpomene, assume that pride which your merits have acquired, and
Thou god, whom the offspring of Niobe experienced as avenger of a
donations, if I were rich in those pieces of art, which either
inclination require any such curiosities as these. You delight in
children. Many brave men lived before Agamemnon: but all of them,
O cruel still, and potent in the endowments of beauty, when an
propitious auspices, smote the ferocious Rhoeti: how worthy of
Thou wilt go, my friend Maecenas, with Liburian galleys among the
command, pursue my ease, which can not be pleasing unless in your
scorching dog-star should change the Calabrian for the Lucanian
Happy the man, who, remote from business, after the manner of the
delicious wine.
Phoebus, and thou Diana, sovereign of the woods, ye illustrious
provision.
farthing.
"But it is still delightful to take out of a great hoard."
Neither your wife, nor your son, desires your recovery; all your
_Bad men, when they avoid certain vices, fall into their opposite
The tribes of female flute-players, quacks, vagrants, mimics,
squander a father's effects, is in all cases an evil. What is the
prostitutes are frequently preferable. Add to this, that [the
yourself upon us a person we do not know?" "As for me, I forgive
Let us return from our digression. As his mistress's disagreeable
When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars,
And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.
So far of this matter; at another opportunity [I may investigate]
excellent father inured me to this custom, that by noting each
constitutions.
Brundusium ends both my long journey, and my paper.
_Of true nobility_.
Laevinus, the descendant of that famous Valerius, by whose means
different from such persons. For if nature were to make us from a
Then, upon his running on in so smart and fluent a manner, the
_Priapus complains that the Esquilian mount is infested with the
incantations of sorceresses_.
_He describes his sufferings from the loquacity of an impertinent
Hermogenes may envy."
Go, boy, and instantly annex this Satire to the end of my book.
invasion. But this pen of mine shall not willfully attack any man
Cervius, when he is offended, threatens one with the laws and the
That I may not be tedious, whether a placid old age awaits me, or
What and how great is the virtue to live on a little (this is no
assistant
Sure, a continuation for this poem could be:
  depravity, would acquiesce, in it.
potentates, Why then have you no better method of expending your
superfluities? Why is any man, undeserving [of distressed
Servius Oppidius, rich in the possession of an ancient estate, is
stricken? Why, with a superstitious fear of the gods.
What, art thou in a [prophetic] raving; or dost thou play upon me
court-house to-morrow before the second hour." "The secretaries
I was highest, and next me was Viscus Thurinus, and below, if I
_He prefers Homer to all the philosophers, as a moral writer, and
poverty?
_That a wise man is in love with nothing but virtue_.
_He apologizes to Maecenas for his long absence from Rome; and
Philip, active and strong, and famed for pleading causes, while
_He recommends Septimius to him_.
disgusts.
_Endeavoring to recall him back to Rome from Asia, whither he had
_Leader the appearance of praising the man's parsimony, he archly
However, whether you murder fishes, or onions and garlic, receive
_Horace cautions him to present his poems to Augustus at a proper
A companion taken [by his lord] to Brundusium, or the pleasant
Look over and over again [into the merits of] such a one, as you
The melancholy hate the merry, and the jocose the melancholy; the
Romulus, and father Bacchus, and Castor and Pollux, after great
disgraceful in his writings.
eagerness they may apply to verdant Helicon.
_In apologizing for not having written to him, he shows that the
Those who make bad verses are laughed at: but they are pleased in
breaking of a bottle-seal: one who [had sense enough] to avoid a
The great majority of us poets, father, and youths worthy such a
remarkable for black eyes and jetty hair.
This, or I am mistaken, will constitute the merit and beauty of
It is not enough that poems be beautiful; let them be tender and
inconsistent with the beginning, nor the end with the middle.
It is not every judge that discerns inharmonious verses, and an
perhaps, I have merited no praise, I have escaped censure.
amicably do they conspire [to produce the same effect]. He who is