Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly 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 fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings".
His career coincided with Rome's momentous change from a republic to an empire. An officer in the republican army defeated at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, he was befriended by Octavian's right-hand man in civil affairs, Maecenas, and became a spokesman for the new regime. For some commentators, his association with the regime was a delicate balance in which he maintained a strong measure of independence (he was "a master of the graceful sidestep") but for others he was, in John Dryden's phrase, "a well-mannered court slave". Provided by Wikipedia
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by Horace
Published 1740
Published 1740
impensis Joannis Nourse ad Insigne Agni extra Portam vulgo dictam Temple Bar
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by Horace
Published 1760
Published 1760
printed by the assignment of Joseph Davidson; and sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes; W. Strahan; R. Baldwin; W. Johnston; J. Ward; G. Keith; J. Wren; P. Stevens; S. Crowder; B. Law; J. Marshall; and T. Field
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by Horace
Published 1797
Published 1797
printed for the author, by G. Jermyn, bookseller, and sold by F. and C. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard, and T. Payne, Mewse-Gate, London
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by Horace
Published 1749
Published 1749
prostant apud Gul. Sandby [typis Jacobi Bettenham] in vico dicto Fleetstreet
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by Horace
Published 1730
Published 1730
printed by W. Burton: and sold by Mr. Stokoe, Bookseller, at the Upper-End of the Hay-Market
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by Horace
Published 1713
Published 1713
printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet
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by Horace
Published 1713
Published 1713
printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet