“Aurea mediocritas”, the golden mean, comes from Horace’s Odes 2.10. The tag is a tidy nominative; in the poem the words are Auream … mediocritātem, accusative, the object of dīligit: whoever loves the golden middle course.
Such a person is safe, lacks the squalor of a worn-out house, and lacks as well an enviable palace. Tap the words below to see how the long relative sentence holds together.
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Horace · Odes 2.10
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Aureamgoldenmediocritātemmiddle course
