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horace-works_119		horace-works_119			.txt	text/plain	667	21	62	After having sworn to these things, and whatever else may cut off the pleasing: hope of returning, let us go, the whole city of us, or at least that part which is superior to the illiterate mob: let the idle and despairing part remain upon these inauspicious habitations. There the shegoats come to the milkpails of their own accord, and the friendly flock return with their udders distended; nor does the bear at evening growl about the sheepfold, nor does the rising ground swell with vipers; and many more things shall we, happy[ Romans], view with admiration: how neither the rainy east lays waste the cornfields with profuse showers, nor is the fertile seed burned by a dry glebe; the king of gods moderating both[ extremes]. Jupiter set apart these shores for a pious people, when he debased the golden age with brass: with brass, then with iron he hardened the ages; from which there shall be a happy escape for the good, according to my predictions.	./cache/horace-works_119.txt	./txt/horace-works_119.txt