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horace-works_90		horace-works_90			.txt	text/plain	454	13	60	Like a river pouring down from a mountain, which sudden rains have increased beyond its accustomed banks, such the deepmouthed Pindar rages and rushes on immeasurable, sure to merit Apollo 's laurel, whether he rolls down newformed phrases through the daring dithyrambic, and is borne on in numbers exempt from rule: whether he sings the gods, and kings, the offspring of the gods, by whom the Centaurs perished with a just destruction,[ by whom] was quenched the flame of the dreadful Chimaera; or celebrates those whom the palm,[ in the Olympic games] at Elis, brings home exalted to the skies, wrestler or steed, and presents them with a gift preferable to a hundred statues: or deplores some youth, snatched[ by death] from his mournful bride-he elevates both his strength, and courage, and golden morals to the stars, and rescues him from the murky grave.	./cache/horace-works_90.txt	./txt/horace-works_90.txt