Horace: Ars poetica by Q. Horatius Flaccus

Horace: Ars poeticaQ. Horatius Flaccus · c. 19 BCEThe verse letter to the Pisones on the art of poetry. Read Horace: Ars poetica by Q. Horatius Flaccus page by page and explore its network of 92 people…[1] Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam iungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas, undique conlatis membris, ut turpiter atrum desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici? credite, Pisones, isti tabulae fore librum persimilem, cuius, velut aegri somnia, vanae fingentur species, ut nec pes nec caput uni reddatur formae. 'pictoribus atque poetis quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.'All books in the ECCE gallery