id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_105 horace-works_105 .txt text/plain 532 14 61 But if a chaste wife, assisting on her part[ in the management] of the house, and beloved children( such as is the Sabine, or the sunburned spouse of the industrious Apulian), piles up the sacred hearth with old wood, just at the approach of her weary husband; and, shutting up the fruitful cattle in the woven hurdles, milks dry their distended udders: and, drawing this year 's wine out of a wellseasoned cask, prepares the unbought collation: not the Lucrine oysters could delight me more, nor the turbot, nor the scar, should the tempestuous winter drive any from the eastern floods to this sea: not the turkey, nor the Asiatic wildfowl, can come into my stomach more agreeably, than the olive gathered from the richest branches from the trees, or the sorrel that loves the meadows, or mallows salubrious for a sickly body, or a lamb slain at the feast of Terminus, or a kid rescued from the wolf. ./cache/horace-works_105.txt ./txt/horace-works_105.txt