poēta poet

Vergilius est poēta.Compare Virgil is a poet.

Poētae vītam agricolae laudābant.Compare Poets used to praise the farmer's life.

Nam castum esse decet pium poetam ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est, qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem, si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici et quod pruriat incitare possunt, non dico pueris, sed his pilosis qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos.Compare For a poet respectful of the Muses should himself be chaste, but his little verses need not be so. All their salt and elegance comes from being licentious, immodest, suggestive of prurient thoughts - not indeed in children but in hairy old men unable to bestir their numbed loins. [Tr. N.G.]

Nunc cōnspicit poētam versūs recitantem.Compare Now she catches sight of a poet reciting verses.

Adulescens, tam etsi properas te hoc saxum rogat ut sese aspicias, deinde quod scriptum est legas. Hic sunt poetae Pacuvi Marci sita Ossa. Hoc volebam nescius ne esses. Vale. (Epigramma)Compare Young man, though you hurry past, this stone would have you look at it and read what is written here. Here lie the bones of the poet Marcus Pacuvius. I would not have you wholly ignorant of him. Farewell. [Epitaph on himself]

Os tenerum pueri balbumque poeta figurat, torquet ab obscenis iam nunc sermonibus aurem, mox etiam pectus praeceptis format amicis, asperitatis et invidiae corrector et irae.Compare It is the poet that gives form to the child's utterance while it is still tender and lisping. He gives the ear a bias from the first against coarse ways of speaking. Presently he molds the heart also with kindly teaching. correcting roughness and envy and anger.

Rudis sum omnino in noster poeta aut iners segnitia est, aut fastidium delicatus.Compare To be altogether unacquainted with out poets betrays either the most helpless idleness, or the most refined fastidiousness.