Vulgar words in The Works of Horace (Page 1)
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If you think to retain, and preserve as friends, the relations which nature gives you, without taking any pains; wretch that you are, you lose your labor equally, as if any one should train an ass to be obedient to the rein, and run in the Campus [Martius].
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Now, my muse, I beg of you briefly to relate the engagement between the buffoon Sarmentus and Messius Cicirrus; and from what ancestry descended each began the contest.
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This place stood a common sepulcher for the miserable mob, for the buffoon Pantelabus, and Nomentanus the rake.
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I hang down my ears like an ass of surly disposition, when a heavier load than ordinary is put upon his back.
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How much better would this be, than to wound with severe satire Pantolabus the buffoon, and the rake Nomentanus!
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This fellow, as soon as he received a thousand talents of patrimony, issues an order that the fishmonger, the fruiterer, the poulterer, the perfumer, and the impious gang of the Tuscan alley, sausage-maker, and buffoons, the whole shambles, together with [all] Velabrum, should come to his house in the morning.
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That buffoon, Volanerius, when the deserved gout had crippled his fingers, maintained [a fellow] that he had hired at a daily price, who took up the dice and put them into a box for him: yet by how much more constant was he in his vice, by so much less wretched was he than the former person, who is now in difficulties by too loose, now by too tight a rein.
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Milvius, and the buffoons [who expected to sup with you], depart, after having uttered curses not proper to be repeated.
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Tell me, which maxim and conduct of the two you approve; or, since you are my junior, hear the reason why Aristippus' opinion is preferable; for thus, as they report, he baffled the snarling cynic: "I play the buffoon for my own advantage, you [to please] the populace.
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Your disregarded adviser shall then laugh [at you]: as he, who in a passion pushed his refractory ass over the precipice.
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For who would save [an ass] against his will?
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See how Plautus supports the character of a lover under age, how that of a covetous father, how those of a cheating pimp: how Dossennus exceeds all measure in his voracious parasites; with how loose a sock he runs over the stage: for he is glad to put the money in his pocket, after this regardless whether his play stand or fall.
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He would view the people more attentively than the sports themselves, as affording him more strange sights than the actor: and for the writers, he would think they told their story to a deaf ass.