id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_94 horace-works_94 .txt text/plain 327 12 61 Thou god, whom the offspring of Niobe experienced as avenger of a presumptuous tongue, and the ravisher Tityus, and also the Thessalian Achilles, almost the conqueror of lofty Troy, a warrior superior to all others, but unequal to thee; though, son of the seagoddess, Thetis, he shook the Dardanian towers, warring with his dreadful spear. He, as it were a pine smitten with the burning ax, or a cypress prostrated by the east wind, fell extended far, and reclined his neck in the Trojan dust. oh!) would have burned speechless babes with Grecian fires, even him concealed in his mother 's womb: had not the father of the gods, prevailed upon by thy entreaties and those of the beauteous Venus, granted to the affairs of Aeneas walls founded under happier auspices. Shortly a bride you will say:" I, skilled in the measures of the poet Horace, recited an ode which was acceptable to the gods, when the secular period brought back the festal days." ./cache/horace-works_94.txt ./txt/horace-works_94.txt