Odes 3.3 opens with one long sentence about the just man who holds to his purpose. Neither the passion of citizens demanding wrong things, nor a tyrant’s threatening face, nor the South Wind, nor the hand of thundering Jupiter shakes him from his steady mind.
The man, iūstum et tenācem prōpositī virum, is the object of quatit, which does not arrive until several lines later. The sentence ends with the line people also search for: if the shattered world should collapse on him, the ruins will strike him unafraid. This edition spells the verb inlabātur; other texts print illābātur.
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Horace · Odes 3.3
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Iūstumjustinlabaturshould collapse upon
