"I hate, boy, the luxury of the Persians and the crowns woven with lime, nor seek for me where the last rose languishes. I don't want you to toil, the myrtle is enough for me. It is not fitting for you, cupbearer, to have myrtle, nor for me either, who drinks under a thick pergola."

Quinto Orazio Flacco

Poet • Italy • 1st century BC

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