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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace

Poem

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

In the original Latin

Nulla placere diu nec vivere carmina possunt, quae scribuntur aquae potoribus.

Horace
Epistles · 20 BC
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Topic
AlcoholPoetry
Statement type
Precepts and axioms
Medium
Poem
Time
20 BCClassical antiquity
Person
Horace
Provenance
Current citation
Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 19.
Original citation
Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 19.

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