quod si . . . mulier iuvet . . . exstruat (43)... siccet (46) . . . adparet (48) form the protasis ; non me iuverint, etc. (49 sqq.), the apodosis. Non . . . descendat, etc., is not felt as a part of the apodosis, but as an independent development of the thought--that far-fetched and dear-bought luxuries would give less pleasure than the unbought joys of a simple country home.
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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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