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Beatus ille

Index: La felicidad escrita, IA,El idioma de los argentinos. Buenos Aires: M. Gleizer, 1928. 46. Tareas y destino de Buenos Aires, PB,Páginas de Jorge Luis Borges. Buenos Aires: Celtia, 1982. 134.

Horace ode

Fishburn and Hughes: "'Happy is he...' the first words of a poem by Horace (Epodes 2) in praise of country life: 'Happy is he who, far from business cares, like the pristine race of mortals, works his ancestral acres with his oxen, from all money-lending free.'" (24)