id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_82 horace-works_82 .txt text/plain 469 17 67 Though, more wealthy than the unrifled treasures of the Arabians and rich India, you should possess yourself by your edifices of the whole Tyrrhenian and Apulian seas; yet, if cruel fate fixes its adamantine grapples upon the topmost roofs, you shall not disengage your mind from dread, nor your life from the snares of death. Their dower is the high virtue of their parents, and a chastity reserved from any other man by a steadfast security; and it, is forbidden to sin, or the reward is death. O if there be any one willing to remove our impious slaughters, and civil rage; if he be desirous to be written FATHER OF THE STATE, on statues[ erected to him], let him dare to curb insuperable licentiousness, and be eminent to posterity; since we( O injustice!) detest virtue while living, but invidiously seek for her after she is taken out of our view. ./cache/horace-works_82.txt ./txt/horace-works_82.txt