WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/horace/14901/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Horace</b></a></p><blockquote>But he that touches me, (hands off! I cry, —<br>Avaunt, and at your peril come not nigh!)<br>Shall for his pains be chaunted up and down,<br>The jest and byeword of a chuckling Town.<br> <br> <i>[At ille,<br>Qui me conmorit (melius non tangere, clamo),<br>Fiebit et insignis tota cantabitur urbe.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Horace</b> (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Satires [Saturae, Sermones],</i> Book 2, # 1, “Sunt quibus in Satira,” l. 44ff (2.2.44-46) (30 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/horace/14901/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/horace/14901/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=derision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>derision</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mockery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mockery</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=retaliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retaliation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=retribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retribution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ridicule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ridicule</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satire</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=satirist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satirist</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=scorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scorn</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=threat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>threat</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=warning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warning</span></a></p>