From T. R. Glover, 1932, Horace: A Return to Allegiance:“When Cervantes discusses Don Quixote with his friend in his sore need of introductory sonnets and marginal glosses, the friend suggests that he should write the sonnets himself; he could “father them on Prester John of the Indies”; and then he should gather phrases and scraps of Latin which he knows by heart or can easily find; the first specimen is from “Horace or whoever said it,” and the next is still more authentic, if anonymous —”
“Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas”
“Regumque turres.”
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