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Download Horace’s first letter, thus written about like his odes (7)

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sapphic

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(Other definitions for sapphic that I've seen before include "emale poetry" , "Relating to a Greek female poet" , "related to lyric poet" , "Like poet's appeal" , "Type of poetry" .)

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