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Horace 1.09

It's wintertime, so let's try to stay warm. Don't worry about the future and enjoy your youth while it lasts.

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Vides ut alta stet nive candidum
Soracte, nec iam sustineant onus
.........silvae laborantes, geluque
..................flumina constiterint acuto.

dissolve frigus ligna super foco .............................5
large reponens atque benignius
.........deprome quadrimum Sabina,
..................o Thaliarche, merum diota.

permitte divis cetera, qui simul
stravere ventos aequore fervido ..........................10
.........deproeliantis, nec cupressi
..................nec veteres agitantur orni.

quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere, et
quem Fors dierum cumque dabit lucro
.........appone, nec dulcis amores .........................15
..................sperne puer neque tu choreas,

donec virenti canities abest
morosa. nunc et campus et areae
.........lenesque sub noctem susurri
..................composita repetantur hora, ................20

nunc et latentis proditor intimo
gratus puellae risus ab angulo
.........pignusque dereptum lacertis
..................aut digito male pertinaci.

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Meter: Alcaic strophe.
8. Thaliarche: Vocative, the etymology of the name being "master of good cheer."
10. stravere: straverunt.
13. quid...cras: "what may be tomorrow";
  fuge: with infinitive, "do not."
14. quem...cumque: tmesis, take with dierum.
16. puer: Vocative.
17. virenti: sc. tibi, "from your bloom."
18. sc. sunt.
20. repetantur: the verb whose subjects include campus, areae, susurri, risus and pignus (zeugma) -- "be sought," "be remembered," "be claimed."
21. latentis: Genitive with puellae.
22. risus: Nominative in apposition with proditor.
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