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Understanding a sacrifice in Horace's carmen 1.5
In Carmina 1, poem 5, Horace writes about an untrustworthy and seducing lady.
He ends the poem in:
(...) Me tabula sacer
votiva paries indicat uvida
suspendisse potenti
vestimenta maris deo.
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Why would avoiding olive oil be a negative thing?
In Horace's Odes 1.8, Horace criticizes his ex's new boyfriend by saying, among other things, that:
...olivum sanguine viperino cautius vitat...
which, roughly, means
He avoids olive oil more ...
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