This is a fault common to singers that among their friends … - Horace

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This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist.

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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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Ovid Virgil Juvenal Lucretius Cicero

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Permitte divis cetera.

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This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist. - Horace

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