Aaron N, you should just learn Latin and read the original. It’s worth it.
There had been some poems in Sapphic stanzas on the Met-Board, and a number of issues arose. Aaron, Horace does on occasion use a monosyllable as the last word in a line (as you do) but always for effect. Here the two terminal “et”s (and’s) serve to convey the vastness of the trip:
Septimi, Gadis aditure mecum et
Cantabrum indoctum iuga ferre nostra et
barbaras Syrtes, ubi Maura semper
aestuat unda,
(Crib)
Septimius, you who are about to travel with me to Gades and
to the Cantabrian untutored as of yet in bearing our yoke and
to the wild Syrtes, where always the Moorish
surf is boiling,
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Aaron Poochigian
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