Who is Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Classical Latin: [ˈkᶣiːn̪t̪ʊs̠ (h)ɔˈraːt̪iʊs̠ ˈfɫ̪akːʊs̠]; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (Satires and Epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (Epodes). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every f...
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Horace Poems

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Horace Quotes

• You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
• No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
• The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
• The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

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