The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Odes 2.4.13-20," by Horace. It explores the use of comma in line 15-16. The use of the words dilectam and delectam are analyzed. It claims that the poem seems to make Horace an actual witness to Phyllis's lamentations. It notes that Horace's poems sometime portray a dramatic situation that may reflect unflatteringly on the poet himself.