Horace Epodes 11.15-18: What's Shame Got to Do with It?

Parker explicates a stanza from Horace's "Epodes," in which Horace recalls how he cried on the shoulder of his friend about the affair he was having. Parker argues that the term "pudor," which is interpreted as shame, may instead have been "furor," or madness. The problem with reading "shame" into the passage is that it makes the term mean the exact opposite of what the situation requires: "Summotus pudor" is made to mean "impudentia," but the "summotus" is left in place.