Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
Wine unlocks the breast.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.