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 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 1739
Published 1739
printed for C. Corbett, at Addison's-Head, against St. Dunstan's Church 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 1796
Published 1796
in ædibus academicis, excudebat Jacobus Mundell, academiæ typographus. Londini: prostant apud G. G & J. Robinson, et T. Payne: Cantabrigiæ, apud W. H. Lunn; - Edinburgi, apud J. Mundell & Soc
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by Horace
Published 1712
Published 1712
printed by M. Jenour, for D. Browne, at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar, and J. Walthoe, in the Middle-Temple Cloysters
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by Horace
Published 1727
Published 1727
impensis J. Knapton, R. Wilkin, A. Bettesworth, D. Midwinter, W. & J. Innys, J. Osborn & T. Longman, R. Robinson, J. Batley, A. Ward, & J. Clarke
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by Horace
Published 1779
Published 1779
for the author, printed at Laidler's Office, Princes-Street, Leicester-Fields; and sold by Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Bew, Pater-Noster-Row; Becket, Corner of the Adelphi; Richardson and Urquhart, Exchange; Kearsley, Fleet-Street; Ridley, St. James's Street; and W. Davis, Piccadilly
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by Horace
Published 1728
Published 1728
printed for W. Pepper; and sold by J. Roberts, W. Meadows, A. Dodd, J. Graves; and several booksellers in Westminster-Hall