"Persta atque obdura, seu rubra Canicula findet infantis statuas, seu pingui tentus omaso Furius hibernas cana nive conspuet Alpis."

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Horace, Sermones, II, v, 39–41 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough), makes satiric use of some verses from Furius Bibaculus. Cp. Quintilian, VIII, vi, 17