aget: bear aloft, upbear, cf. levat, 4.2.25. penna: cf. pinnata fama (Verg. Aen. 9.473). Cf. ibid. 4.181; Spenser, Ruins of Time, 'But Fame with golden wings aloft doth fly,' etc. metuente solvi: unflagging, with a possible glance at the wax-joined wings of Icarus. Indissolubilis would be unpoetical and impracticable here. Periphrasis with metuo ekes out the slender resources of Latin as does periphrasis with careo. Cf. 3.11.10; 3.24.22; 4.5.20; Verg. G. 1.246, arctos . . . metuentes aequore tingui. Cf. also 3.26.10. n.
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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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