avium, etc.: for aviaries of singing birds in Roman palaces, see Pliny, N.H. 10.72, 17.6; Rutil. 1.111; Varro, R. R. 3.5. Maecenas suffered from insomnia and was said to seek sleep, per symphoniarum cantum ex longinquo lene resonantium; Sen. Dial. 1.3. But Horace would hardly allude to that. Cf. further Epode 2.28. n.; Epp. 1.2.31; Tibull. 1.2.77; Tenn. Choric Soug, 'Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.'
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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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