Hirpi'nus, Qui Nctius
a friend of Horace, who, according to the received titles of his poems, addressed to him an ode (
Carm. 2.11), and an epistle (
Epp. 1.16).
In the former of these compositions he admonishes Hirpinus to relax from public cares, in the latter, if it relate to Hirpinus at all, to prefer solid to specious virtue.
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