But no hall awaits the rich lord more surely than the appointed bourne of greedy Orcus. Fine (fem. Epode 17.36) is a virtual synonym of aula which could not well be repeated, with the further implication that 'the vasty hall of death' (cf. 3.11.16; Eurip. Alcest. 259) is our final home, mors ultima linea rerum est, Epist. 1. 16.79; θαϝάτοιο τελευτή. It is quite unnecessary to construe destinata with aulă, or with aulā understood, and to interpret fine 'by the limit set by' or 'in the confines of.' For the thought, cf. Butler, 'Our noblest piles and stateliest rooms| Are but outhouses to our tombs'; Longfellow, 'For thee was a house built| Ere thou wast born.'
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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