WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/horace/75284/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Horace</b></a></p><blockquote>Like the Athenian miser, who was wont<br>To meet men’s curses with a hero’s front:<br>“Folks hiss me,” said he, “but myself I clap<br>When I tell o’er my treasures on my lap.”<br> <br> <i>[Ut quidam memoratur Athenis<br>sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces<br>sic solitus: ‘populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo<br>ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.’]</i></blockquote><p><b>Horace</b> (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Satires [Saturae, Sermones],</i> Book 1, # 1, <i>“Qui fit, Maecenas,”</i> l. 64ff (1.1.64-67) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/horace/75284/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/horace/75284/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=avarice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>avarice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=riches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riches</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=booing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>booing</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disdain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disdain</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=hissing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hissing</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=miser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>miser</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mob</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=solace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solace</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=treasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>treasure</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a></p>