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![]() | ...vina, poemata reddit,? Si meliora dies, ut vina, poemata reddit, scire velim, chartis pretium quotus arroget annus. scriptor abhinc annos centum qui decidit, inter perfectos veteresque referri debet an inter vilis atque novos? Excludat iurgia finis, “Est vetus atque probus, centum qui perficit annos.” Quid, qui deperiit minor uno mense vel anno, inter quos referendus erit? Thanks |
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![]() | Horace is beyond me, but I think that phrase means something like, "If poetry, like wine, improves with age...." or, closer to the grammar, "If age gives back better poetry, like [it does with] wine...." "Si dies reddit meliora poemata, ut vina," is what I'm thinking. (Let Horace turn over in his grave -- it helps!) But don't hold me to any of this! |
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