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Subject: QUINTILIUS VARUS (D. 24 B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ODES I, 18. TO QUINTILIUS VARUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Varus, plant no tree in preference to the sacred vine
Last Line: More transparently than from a crystal jar
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Quintilius Varus (d. 24 B.c.)


ODES I, 18. TO VARUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For planning in the rich tiburtine soil
Last Line: Spills all its secrets into promiscuous ears
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Quintilius Varus (d. 24 B.c.)


ODES I, 24. TO VERGIL: A DIRGE FOR QUINTILIUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How can we restrain our sorrow? Fence our grief
Last Line: Whatever it is impossible to correct
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Quintilius Varus (d. 24 B.c.); Virgil (70-19 B.c.)


ODES I, 24. TO VIRGIL, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unshamed, unchecked, for one so dear
Last Line: The ills which they may not undo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Quintilius Varus (d. 24 B.c.); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil


ODES I, 24. TO VIRGIL, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How should this grief be properly put into words?
Last Line: Will be at last made easier in the heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Quintilius Varus (d. 24 B.c.); Virgil (70-19 B.c.)