otium: the Roman world was very tired and ready to accept repose as the chief good in life and politics. Seneca says of Augustus, de Brev. Vit. 5, omnis eius sermo ad hoc semper revolutus est ut speraret otium.--'Deus nobis haec otia fecit,' says the Vergilian shepherd of the firm ruler, qui cuncta discordiis civilibus fessa nomine principis sub imperium accepit; Tac. Ann. 1. 1. Cf. Renan, First Hibbert Lecture, introd. Pax was the sailor's word. Cf. Plaut. Trinum. 837; Lucret. 5.1229, non divum pacem votis adit ac prece quaesit| ventorum pavidus paces animasque secundas? patenti: open.
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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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