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horace-works_159		horace-works_159			.txt	text/plain	394	16	78	In vain he endeavors to retain his book, desirous of getting abroad; tells it what trouble it is to undergo, and imparts some things to be said of him to posterity. Your disregarded adviser shall then laugh[ at you]: as he, who in a passion pushed his refractory ass over the precipice. But when the abating warmth of the sun shall attract more ears, you shall tell them, that I was the son of a freedman, and extended my wings beyond my nest; so that, as much as you take away from my family, you may add to my merit: that I was in favor with the first men in the state, both in war and peace; of a short stature, gray before my time, calculated for sustaining heat, prone to passion, yet so as to be soon appeased.	./cache/horace-works_159.txt	./txt/horace-works_159.txt