Horace warns Pyrrhus that the lady from whom he has stolen the gorgeous Nearchus will be coming after him. In the last stanza, Nireus was the man described in Homer’s Iliad as the most beautiful of the Greeks after Achilles, and the boy “snatched from well-watered Ida” (by Jupiter) was Ganymede.
Metre: Sapphic
See the illustrated blog post here.
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