Ars Poetica

Horace

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

  1. nec verbo verbum curabis reddere fidus
  2. interpres nec desilies imitator in artum,
  3. unde pedem proferre pudor vetet aut operis lex,
  4. nec sic incipies, ut scriptor cyclicus olim: