Horace, Epode 6.16

Classical Quarterly 37 (02):523- (1987)
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Here Horace gives warning to an adversary of his powers of literary attack, comparing himself with the great iambists Archilochus and Hipponax . The general sense of the last two lines seems clear: ‘If someone attacks me , shall I weep like a mere boy?’, i.e. ‘Am I not to take revenge?’

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