{"id":459,"date":"2009-01-03T23:54:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T03:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=459"},"modified":"2009-01-04T08:49:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T12:49:37","slug":"horace-kippled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Horace Kippled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D. A. West, in <em>Horace Odes I: Carpe Diem<\/em>, Oxford 1995, 6-7:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In Horace the tone is often elusive. Perhaps the nearest thing in English is the parody [of <em>Odes<\/em> 1.1] by Kipling in &#8216;A Diversity of Creatures&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are whose study is of smells,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who to attentive schools rehearse<br \/>\nHow something mixed with something else<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Makes something worse.<\/p>\n<p>Some cultivate in broths impure<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The clients of our body; these,<br \/>\nIncreasing without Venus, cure<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or cause disease.<\/p>\n<p>Others the heated wheel extol,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And all its offspring, whose concern<br \/>\nIs how to make it farthest roll<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And fastest turn.<\/p>\n<p><em>Me<\/em>, much incurious if the hour<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Present, or to be paid for, brings<br \/>\n<em>Me<\/em> to Brundisium by the power<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of wheels or wings,<\/p>\n<p><em>Me<\/em>, in whose breast no flame has burned<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Life long, save that by Pindar lit,<br \/>\nSuch lore leaves cold; nor have I turned<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Aside for it,<\/p>\n<p>More than when, sunk in thought profound<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;of what the unaltered Gods require,<br \/>\nMy steward (friend but slave) brings round<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Logs for my fire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D. A. West, in Horace Odes I: Carpe Diem, Oxford 1995, 6-7: In Horace the tone is often elusive. Perhaps the nearest thing in English is the parody [of Odes 1.1] by Kipling in &#8216;A Diversity of Creatures&#8217;: There are whose study is of smells, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who to attentive schools rehearse How something mixed with something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-what-ive-been-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}