A commonplace of classical poetry. Tibull. 1.7, 23; Lucan, 10.193. Cf. Swift, Apollo's Edict, 'No simile shall be begun |With rising or with setting sun,| And let the secret head of Nile | Be ever banished from your isle.'
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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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