Draft:Horace, Epistle 1.19.23-31

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                        Parios ego primus iambos
Ostendi Latio, numerous animosque secutus
25 Archilochi, non res et agentia uerba Lycamben.
Ac ne me foliis ideo breuioribus ornes
Quod timui mutare modos et carminis artem,
Temperat Archilochi Musam pede mascula Sappho,
Temperat Alcaeus, sed rebus et ordine dispar,
30 Nec socerum quaerit, quem uersibus oblinat atris,
Nec sponsae laqueum famoso carmine nectit.

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