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Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit; Spes jubet esse ratas; in prælia trudit inermem. What does drunkenness not accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit; Spes jubet esse ratas; in prælia trudit inermem. What does drunkenness not accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
Approximate author period: c. 37 BC · classical
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- Horace
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- Approximate author period: c. 37 BC · classical
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 399 · quotation 6 · Horace · Epistles. I. 5. 16.
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