SCRIPTURA

Classical Latin

The Art of Poetry · Ars Poetica

Horace

Translated by Christopher Smart

A verse letter on how to write poetry, read by poets ever since.

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  • Latin: ed. Christopher Smart, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0893.phi006, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Christopher Smart, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0893.phi006.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (line numbers), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

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