Can run a race, and box most manfully,
Swim like a duck, and caper like a flea.
10He hunts the stag, and all the forest o'er
With strength and craft pursues the savage boar:
He minds the sport, and thou desir'st no more.
Book III. Ode XVII. To Aelius Lamia.
Brave Aelius, sprung from an heroic line,
Whose pedigree in long descents do shine,
That add'st new glories to the Lamian name,