Ars Poetica

Horace

Horace. The Works of Horace. Vol. II. Smart, Christopher, editor. Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1836.

  1. rectius Iliacum carmen deducis in actus
  2. quam si proferres ignota indictaque primus:
  3. publica materies privati iuris erit, si
  4. non circa vilem patulumque moraberis orbem