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To boast a man more frank to impartKind offices to friends with open Heart,Or, with hand amidst his store,Delighting to distribute more
EPODE V.Measures 10.
Than Theron: yet foul calumny, injurious blame, 200Did the men of rancour raiseAgainst his fair renown,Defamers who by evil Actions strove to drownHis good, and to conceal his praise.Can the sand, 205On the strand,Be numbered o'er? Then, true to Theron's fame,His favours showering down delightOn thousands who is able to recite?

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