Gold, Its Strength and Its Weakness

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Gold, Its Strength and Its Weakness

Poet(s)

Horace

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Translator

Campbell, W. A.

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DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 118:719, 343–344, September 1875.

First line

Strong doors of oak and watch-dogs sour

Original language

Latin

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included under the general title “Horatian Lyrics. The Laird at Home” (336-44). Title is conventionally “Ode XVI. Book III. Ad Mæcenatum”. The first stanza of the Latin original appears above Knapdale’s English translation (KF). Translator identification: The Wellesley Index. (HR)

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Gold, Its Strength and Its Weakness