Perhaps you know how to draw a cypress tree: so what, if you've been given money to paint a sailor plunging from a shipwreck in despair? - Horace

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Perhaps you know how to draw a cypress tree: so what, if you've been given money to paint a sailor plunging from a shipwreck
in despair?

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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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