id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_96 horace-works_96 .txt text/plain 289 14 68 ODES IV. ODE VIII. O Censorinus, liberally would I present my acquaintance with goblets and beautiful vases of brass; I would present them with tripods, the rewards of the brave Grecians: nor would you bear off the meanest of my donations, if I were rich in those pieces of art, which either Parrhasius or Scopas produced; the latter in statuary, the former in liquid colors, eminent to portray at one time a man, at another a god. What would the son of Mars and Ilia be, if invidious silence had stifled the merits of Romulus? Thus laborious Hercules has a place at the longedfor banquets of Jove:[ thus] the sons of Tyndarus, that bright constellation, rescue shattered vessels from the bosom of the deep:[ and thus] Bacchus, his temples adorned with the verdant vinebranch, brings the prayers of his votaries to successful issues. ./cache/horace-works_96.txt ./txt/horace-works_96.txt