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noun - Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)
HORACE - Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet d...
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In Augustan Rome Maecenas was a patron of Virgil & this "Satires" poet |
The "Odes" of this Roman poet have been called "jewels five-words-long that... sparkle forever" |
This Roman poet fought for Brutus before settling down to write his epodes & odes |
In his "Odes". this satirist & poet referred to Virgil as "half of my soul" |
Sherlock Holmes finds "as much sense in Hafiz", a 14th C. Persian poet, "as in" this Roman with an "H" name |
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Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC) |
(658 BC), Roman poet of the Augustan period full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus. A notable satirist and literary critic, he is best known for his Odes, much imitated by later ages, especially by the poets of 17th-century England. His other works include Satires and Ars Poetica. |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC November 27, 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 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, M |