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horace-works_152		horace-works_152			.txt	text/plain	249	11	76	EPISTLES I. EPISTLE XIII. As on your setting out I frequently and fully gave you instructions, Vinnius, that you would present these volumes to Augustus sealed up if he shall be in health, if in spirits, finally, if he shall ask for them: do not offend out of zeal to me, and industriously bring an odium upon my books[ by being] an agent of violent officiousness. If haply the heavy load of my paper should gall you, cast it from you, rather than throw down your pack in a rough manner where you are directed to carry it, and turn your paternal name of Asina into a jest, and make yourself a common story. As soon as you have achieved your enterprise, and arrived there, you must keep your burden in this position; lest you happen to carry my bundle of books under your arm, as a clown does a lamb, or as drunken Pyrrhia[ in the play does] the balls of pilfered wool, or as a tribeguest his slippers with his fuddlingcap.	./cache/horace-works_152.txt	./txt/horace-works_152.txt