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Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Art of Poetry: To the Pisos (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), line 189 (search)
egard to numbers and sounds, like that in another place, which respects words (l. 51), is one of those which is allowed, when sumpta pudenter. The comparative major, which is a palliative, shows this; and is further justified by a like passage in Cicero de Oratore (I. iii. c. 48), where, speaking of this very license in poetry, he observes, that out of the heroic and iambic measure, which was at first strictly observed, there arose by degrees the anapaest, "procerior quidam numerus, et ille licein ea" (i. e. poetica), says he, "licentiam statuo majorem esse, quam in nobis faciendorum iungendorumque verborum." The poet says this license extended "numeris modisque," the former of which words will express that license of meter spoken of by Cicero, and which is further explained, v. 256, etc., where an account is given of the improvement of the iambic verse. HURD. For what taste could an unlettered clown and one just dismissed from labors have, when in company with the polite; the base, wi