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... Young Sybaris to ruin ? Why shuns he now the sunny field Who ne'er to dust or heat would yield ? Why rides he not a soldier bold Among the warlike train ? Nor cares his Gallic steed to hold With bit and bridle rein ? Why fears he ...
... Young Sybaris to ruin ? Why shuns he now the sunny field Who ne'er to dust or heat would yield ? Why rides he not a soldier bold Among the warlike train ? Nor cares his Gallic steed to hold With bit and bridle rein ? Why fears he ...
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... young recruits , dread foes To meet in Eastern war . Alas ! I blush at all our crimes , Brother by brother slain ! What shun we in these impious times ? What do we not profane ? Have youths to spoil the shrines refused ? Ah ! goddess ...
... young recruits , dread foes To meet in Eastern war . Alas ! I blush at all our crimes , Brother by brother slain ! What shun we in these impious times ? What do we not profane ? Have youths to spoil the shrines refused ? Ah ! goddess ...
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... t be base . Her arms I praise , heart - whole and free , Her ankles smooth , and brow ; O , scandal ne'er can point at me , I'm just at forty now . V. OF LALAGE . She's all too young to wed Book II . 43 TO XANTHIUS PHOCEUS.
... t be base . Her arms I praise , heart - whole and free , Her ankles smooth , and brow ; O , scandal ne'er can point at me , I'm just at forty now . V. OF LALAGE . She's all too young to wed Book II . 43 TO XANTHIUS PHOCEUS.
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Horace. V. OF LALAGE . She's all too young to wed and bear The duties of a wife ; Too soon to yoke her neck so fair In partnership for life . Like a young heifer thro ' the meads She wanders at her will , Now sporting with the calves she ...
Horace. V. OF LALAGE . She's all too young to wed and bear The duties of a wife ; Too soon to yoke her neck so fair In partnership for life . Like a young heifer thro ' the meads She wanders at her will , Now sporting with the calves she ...
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... Young Troilus to mourn . Then cease unmanly grief awhile , And celebrate with me Our mighty Cæsar's recent spoil , And glorious victory . Niphates , Medus - now their wave Must roll a humbler tide- And checked by him must Scythians ...
... Young Troilus to mourn . Then cease unmanly grief awhile , And celebrate with me Our mighty Cæsar's recent spoil , And glorious victory . Niphates , Medus - now their wave Must roll a humbler tide- And checked by him must Scythians ...
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