id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_138 horace-works_138 .txt text/plain 1483 67 77 Priscus, frequently observed with three rings, sometimes with his left hand bare, lived so irregularly that he would change his robe every hour; from a magnificent edifice, he would on a sudden hide himself in a place, whence a decent freedman could scarcely come out in a decent manner; one while he would choose to lead the life of a rake at Rome, another while that of a teacher at Athens; born under the evil influence of every Vertumnus. Are you my superior, subjected as you are, to the dominion of so many things and persons, whom the praetor 's rod, though placed on your head three or four times over, can never free from this wretched solicitude? ./cache/horace-works_138.txt ./txt/horace-works_138.txt