The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.