“A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.”

— Horace , book Satires

Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res
Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae.
Book II, satire viii, lines 73–74 http://books.google.com/books?id=hlgNAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Sed+convivatoris+uti+ducis+ingenium+res+Adversae+nudare+solent+celare+secundae%22&pg=PA360#v=onepage
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)

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Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BC

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