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horace-works_158		horace-works_158			.txt	text/plain	599	30	75	He shows the folly of some persons who would imitate; and the envy of others who would censure him. Ever since Bacchus enlisted the brainsick poets among the Satyrs and the Fauns, the sweet muses have usually smelt of wine in the morning. Homer, by his excessive praises of wine, is convicted as a booser: father Ennius himself never sallied forth to sing of arms, unless in drink. The tongue that imitated Timagenes was the destruction of the Moor, while he affected to be humorous, and attempted to seem eloquent. The example that is imitable in its faults, deceives[ the ignorant]. You must not, however, crown me with a more sparing wreath, because I was afraid to alter the measure and structure of his verse: for the manly Sappho governs her muse by the measures of Archilochus, so does Alcaeus; but differing from him in the materials and disposition[ of his lines], neither does he seek for a fatherinlaw whom he may defame with his fatal lampoons, nor does he tie a rope for his betrothed spouse in scandalous verse.	./cache/horace-works_158.txt	./txt/horace-works_158.txt