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Horace 1.38

"I despise fancy trappings, boy - simple things are good enough for you and me."

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Persicos odi, puer, apparatus;
displicent nexae philyra coronae;
mitte sectari rosa quo locorum
........sera moretur.

Simplici myrto nihil allabores.........................5
sedulus curo: neque te ministrum
dedecet myrtus neque me sub arta
........vite bibentem..

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Meter: Sapphic Strophe
1. apparatus: Accusative plural modified by Persicos.
3. mitte: with infinitive; "do not";
  quo locorum: adverb with Partitive Genitive, "in what places."
6. sedulus: take either with allabores (line 5) or curo;
  ministrum: in apposition with te.
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last updated October 17, 2003
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