If you can realistically render a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck? - Horace

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If you can realistically render
a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint
a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck?

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About Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.

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Native Name: Q. Horatius Flaccus
Alternative Names: Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horatius Horatius Flaccus
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Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.

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