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horace-works_97		horace-works_97			.txt	text/plain	397	13	61	TO MARCUS LOLLIUS Lest you for a moment imagine that those words will be lost, which I, born on the farresounding Aufidus, utter to be accompanied with the lyre, by arts hitherto undivulged-If Maeonian Homer possesses the first rank, the Pindaric and Cean muses, and the menacing strains of Alcaeus, and the majestic ones of Stesichorus, are by no means obscure: neither, if Anacreon long ago sportfully sung any thing, has time destroyed it: even now breathes the love and live the ardors of the Aeolian maid, committed to her lyre. Many brave men lived before Agamemnon: but all of them, unlamented and unknown, are overwhelmed with endless obscurity, because they were destitute of a sacred bard. I will not[ therefore], O Lollius, pass you over in silence, uncelebrated in my writings, or suffer envious forgetfulness with impunity to seize so many toils of thine.	./cache/horace-works_97.txt	./txt/horace-works_97.txt