Captain Blood on Odes: “lounged Peter Blood, a calf-bound, well-thumbed copy of Horace's Odes neglected in his hands”
Captain Blood on Epodes: “He flung after those war-fevered enthusiasts a line of Horace: “Quo, quo, scelesti, ruitis?””
Captain Blood on The Buccaneers of America: “those of you who have read Esquemeling may be in danger of supposing that Henry Morgan really performed those things”