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 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
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“...Horace...”Published 1713
printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet
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by Horace
Published 1743
Published 1743
printed for the author, and sold by the following booksellers, T. Astley, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; Mary and James Fletcher, in Oxon; B. Collins and E. Easton, in Sarum; and W. Pitt, in Blandford
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by Horace
Published 1742
Published 1742
printed by A. Reilly for the author, and sold by W. Smith, at the Hercules in Dame's-Street, and by most of the booksellers
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by Horace
Published 1760
Published 1760
printed for C. Hitch & L. Hawes, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Ward, G. Keith, J. Wren, P. Stevens, S. Crowder and Co. P. Davey and B. Law, J. Marshall, and T. Field
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by Horace
Published 1744
Published 1744
Dublin, printed; London, reprinted and sold by M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, J. Fletcher bookseller in Oxford, and W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge
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by Horace
Published 1714
Published 1714
printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the two Temple-Gates in ... Street
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by Horace
Published 1712
Published 1712
printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street
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by Horace
Published 1712
Published 1712
printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street
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by Horace
Published 1712
Published 1712
printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street
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by Horace
Published 1725
Published 1725
printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street
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by Horace
Published 1725
Published 1725
printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street
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by Horace
Published 1712
Published 1712
printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street
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by Horace
Published 1712
Published 1712
printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street