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What to do when you only have modest wine on hand for a decorous guest

30 May 2023

10:59 PM

30 May 2023

10:59 PM

So, I’ve have been rooting around in Horace’s Epistles, which are full of amusing things. They really are not “epistles” in the conventional sense, since they were make-believe letters, artfully wrought jebux d’esprit that employ the convention of addressing a friend in order to entertain not (or not only) that friend (who may or may not exist) but one’s readers.

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