scimus: the drift seems to be: Augustus is a benign ruler, but those who rebel against his easy yoke and attempt to throw the Roman world back into the chaos of civil war will meet the well-known fate of the blind Titanic powers that sought to overthrow the fairer order established by Zeus and the bright Olympian deities. Horace blends the various Greek legends in one composite picture.
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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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