_O sæpe mecum tempus in ultimum
Deducte_
II, 7.
is to be dated either from the time when Domitius Ahenobarbus united
with Asinius Pollio (712), or more likely somewhat later, when Sextus
Pompey made peace with the triumvirs, 713, Horace being then
twenty-five years old. The punctuation in the edition of Lambinus is
incorrect in the passage
_Cum fracta virtus et minaces
Turpe solum tetigere mento._
There ought to be a comma after _minaces_, and a note of admiration
after _turpe_, which is not an adjective but an adverb, according to
the Horatian usage. The passage refers to those who in their flight
stumble and fall.
Footnote 23:
De Orat. III, 12, 45.—Germ. Ed.
Footnote 24: