id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_64 horace-works_64 .txt text/plain 373 17 70 ODES III. ODE VI. Thou shalt atone, O Roman, for the sins of your ancestors, though innocent, till you shall have repaired the temples and tottering shrines of the gods, and their statues, defiled with sooty smoke. Thou boldest sway, because thou bearest thyself subordinate to the gods; to this source refer every undertaking; to this, every event. The gods, because neglected, have inflicted many evils on calamitous Italy. The times, fertile in wickedness, have in the first place polluted the marriage state, and[ thence] the issue and families. The marriageable virgin delights to be taught the Ionic dances, and even at this time is trained up in[ seductive] arts, and cherishes unchaste desires from her very infancy. What does not wasting time destroy? ./cache/horace-works_64.txt ./txt/horace-works_64.txt