“Integer vitae scelerisque purus” opens Horace’s Odes 1.22, a poem addressed to Fuscus. The man upright in life and free of crime has no need of Moorish javelins, or a bow, or a quiver heavy with poisoned arrows.
The sentence runs on to say that this holds wherever he travels: through the stormy Syrtes, through the inhospitable Caucasus, or to the places washed by the fabled Hydaspes. Integer and pūrus take the genitives vītae and scelerisque. Tap the words below to follow the whole sentence.
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Horace · Odes 1.22
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