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齊景公問政於孔子。孔子對曰。君君。臣臣。
父父。子子。公曰。善哉。信如君不君。臣不臣。父不父。子不子。雖有粟。吾得而食諸。
how do you know that 君君 is 'subject verb'. why not 'verb noun' - the king should king the kings
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Reading Companion: Horace, Odes 2.8

The Central Paradox: Perjury as Cosmetic

Odes 2.8 is a poem whose rhetorical engine runs on a single scandalous observation: that Barine's oath-breaking, far from provoking divine retribution, actually enhances her beauty and multiplies her power. The contrary-to-fact condition that spans the first two stanzas establishes this paradox with schematic clarity—si … nocuisset … crederem; sed … enitescis / pulchrior multo—and the remaining four stanzas explore its implications with escalating extravagance. What makes the poem interesting beyond this conceit is the rhetorical trajectory it traces: from a mock-forensic indictment, through theological scandal, to a hymnic apotheosis in which Barine is effectively deified. The poem does not merely describe a beautiful perjurer; it performs her elevation from erotic nuisance to cosmic principle, and it does so by systematically appropriating and inverting the generic codes available to it—legal discourse, philosophical a

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