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Text
Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolae,
mendici, mimae, balatrones, hoc genus omne
maestum ac sollicitum est cantoris morte Tigelli.
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Translation
The worshipful companies of Syrian Singers and Slags, Drug Dealers, Beggars, Luvvies and Clowns (and all of ‘that sort’), are in mourning and have become very anxious due to the demise of the singer Tigellius.
TRANSLATION
So, Maecenas, I’m just trying to figure out how it is that not one single person seems to be content with their lot in life.
It doesn’t matter whether his own choices decide his fate or whether chance has thrown something directly at him; everyone…
Notes
Horace starts. But his message does not start at the beginning. The first piece of his first published work…