id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_151 horace-works_151 .txt text/plain 356 15 71 EPISTLES I. EPISTLE XII. Leader the appearance of praising the man 's parsimony, he archly ridicules it; introduces Grosphus to him, and concludes with a few articles of news concerning the Roman affairs. O Iccius, if you rightly enjoy the Sicilian products, which you collect for Agrippa, it is not possible that greater affluence can be given you by Jove. for that man is by no means poor, who has the use or everything, he wants. The proceeds of friendship are cheap, when good men want any thing. But that you may not be ignorant in what situation the Roman affairs are; the Cantabrians have fallen by the valor of Agrippa, the Armenians by that of Claudius Nero: Phraates has, suppliant on his knees, admitted the laws and power of Caesar. ./cache/horace-works_151.txt ./txt/horace-works_151.txt