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Horace (65–8 B.C.)

Horace, or Quintus Horatius Flaccus. A great Latin lyric poet; born at Venusia, in southern Italy, Dec. 8, 65 B.C.; died at Rome, Nov. 27, 8 B.C. His writings, in the order of their production, are: ‘The Satires,’ or as the poet himself called them ‘Talks’ (Sermones), eighteen in number, and written in hexameter verse; ‘Epodes,’ a collection of lyric poems in iambic and composite metres; ‘Odes,’ his most exquisite works, and the delight of scholars ever since they were written; ‘Epistles,’ in hexameter verse, brilliant in wit, perfect in melody, replete with workaday wisdom,—among them is the ‘Epistle to the Pisos,’ or ‘The Art of Poetry,’ as it has been aptly called. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).

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