The Works of Horace Author:Horace, Christopher Smart Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SATIRES OF HORACE BOOK I. SATIRE I. TO MAECENAS. That all, but especially the covetous, think tJieir own condition the hardest. How comes i... more »t to pass, Maecenas, that no one lives content with his condition, whether Reason gave it him, or Chance threw it in his way; but praises those who have different pursuits'! O happy merchants! says the soldier, oppressed with years, and now broke down in his limbs through excess of labour. On the other side, the merchant, when the south winds toss his ship, cries, warfare is preferable; for why? the engagement is begun, and in an instant comes there a speedy death, or a Agricolam laudat juris legumque peritus, Sub galli cantum consultor ubi ostia pulsat. 10 Hie, datis vadibus, qui rure extractus in urbem est, Solos felices viventes clamat in urbe. Cajtera de genere hoc, (adeo sunt multa,) lo- quacem Delassare valente Fabium. Ne te morer, audi Quo rem deducam. Si quis Deus, En ego, dicat, 15 Jam faciam quod vultis; ens tu, qui modu miles, Mercator; tu consultus modo, rusticus: hinc vos, Vos hinc, mutatis disceditc partibus:—eia, Quid statis 1 nolint: atqui licet esse beatis. Quid causa; est, merito quin illis Jupiter ambas 20 Iratus buccas inflet, neque se fore posthac Tarn facilem dicat, votis ut praebeat aurem'? Praoterea, ne sic, ut qui jocularia, ridens Percurram: (quanquam ridentem dicere verum Quid vetat 1 utf pueris olim dant crustula blandi Doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima: 26 Sed tamen amoto quoeramus seria ludo.) llle gravem duro terrain qui vcrtit aratro, Perfidus hie caupo, | miles, nautaeque per omne Audaces mare qui currunt, hac mente laborem 30 Sese ferre, senes ut in otia tuta recedant, Prselerea nc sic. Anon. t Et. Sanad, J Guusidieus vafer hie. Mmkl. chapter{Section 4h...« less