[578] Horace contrasts the 'dirge of Simonides' ('Ceae retractes munera neniae') with the lighter poetry of love.
[579] Cf. Munro's Lucretius, p. 468, third edition.
[580] lxxii. 5-8:—
'Nunc te cognovi: quare etsi impensius uror,
Multo mi tamen es vilior et levior.
Qui potis est? inquis. Quia amantem iniuria talis
Cogit amare magis, set bene velle minus.'
[581] lxxxv. 1.
[582] xi. 23.
[583] lxxvi.