The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace Part 23
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Yet so that none should ask it to resign The sixth, fourth, second places in the line.
Horace does not mention the sixth place: I have introduced it for the benefit of persons who, as actually happened to me when very young, may attempt to write Iambic trimeters with no guide but this pa.s.sage, and may be in consequence in danger of making them scazons, as I actually did.
PAGE 188.
Entrust it first to Maecius' critic ears, Your sire's, and mine, and keep it back nine years.
Almost a verbal coincidence with Howes, but a coincidence only.
PAGE 189.
Then blush not for the lyre: Apollo sings In unison with her who sweeps its strings.
It is difficult to say whether the paragraph of which these lines are the conclusion is a sketch of the history of poetry in general or of lyric poetry in particular. The former would be rather inartistic after the other historical notices of poetry that have occurred in the poem: the latter is not easily reconciled with the mention of Homer. On the other hand, Horace's inexactness elsewhere makes either supposition quite possible. I have translated so as to leave the ground open to either.
PAGE 191.
A second Aristarch.
Before them marched that awful Aristarch.
POPE, Dunciad, Book iv.
PAGE 191.
Leave poets free to perish as they will.
Following Mr. Howes and probably others who have written on the Ars Poetica, though apparently not the latest editors, I regard all the words from "Deus immortalis haberi" to the end as part of Horace's speech to the man who thinks of rescuing the mad poet. Much of the humour of what follows, e. g. "Nec semel hoc fecit," "Nec satis apparet," &c. would, it seems to me, be lost on any other supposition.
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