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Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 1, He describes a certain journey of his from Rome
to Brundusium with great pleasantry. (search)
He describes a certain journey of his from Rome
to Brundusium with great pleasantry.
HAVING
Octavius and Antony, both aspiring to the sovereign power, must necessarily have had
frequent quarrels and dissensions. Their reconciliations were of short continuance, because
they were insincere. Among many negotiations, undertaken by their common friends to
reconcile them, history mentions two more particularly. The first in the year 714, the other in 717, which was concluded by the mediation of Octavia,
and to which our poet was carried by Maecenas.
left mighty Rome, Aricia received me in but a middling inn: Heliodorus the
rhetorician, most learned in the Greek language, was my fellow-traveler: thence we proceeded
to Forum-Appi, stuffed with sailors and surly landlords. This stage, but one for better
travelers
Praecinctis.
Prepared for traveling, i. e. altius praecincis, "to
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 1, He supports the judgment which he had before given of Lucilius, and intersperses some
excellent precepts for the writing of Satire. (search)
He supports the judgment which he had before given of Lucilius, and intersperses some
excellent precepts for the writing of Satire.
To be sure I did say, that the verses of Lucilius
Lucilius had his numerous admirers in Rome, who
were greatly disobliged by the freedom with which our poet had treated him in his fourth
Satire. Horace was determined to support his own
judgment, and instead of making an apology, confirms what he had said, with his utmost force
and address. Respecting the eight spurious verses usually prefixed to this satire, see
Orelli's Excursus. The verses are as follows:
lucili, quam sis mendosus, teste catone,
defensore tuo, pervincam, qui male factos
emendare parat versus, hoc lenius ille,
quo melior vir et est longe subtilior illo,
qui multum puer et loris et funibus udis
exoratus, ut esset, opem qui ferre poetis
antiquis p
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 2, Damasippus, in a conversation with Horace ,
proves this paradox of the Stoic philosophy, that most men are actually mad. (search)
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 1, We ought to connive at the faults of our friends, and all offenses are not to be ranked
in the catalogue of crimes. (search)
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 2, He supposes himself to consult with Trebatius, whether he should desist from writing
satires, or not. (search)
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 1, Priapus complains that the Esquilian mount is infested with the incantations of
sorceresses. (search)