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Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Art of Poetry: To the Pisos (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), line 73 (search)
corum, be exactly known and diligently observed by the poet." of kings, and chiefs, and direful war might be written. Plaintive strains originally were appropriated to the unequal numbers [of the elegiac]:Elegy was at first only a lamentation for the death of a person beloved, and probably arose frem the death of Adonis. It was afterward applied to the joys and griefs of lovers. afterward [love and] successful desires were included. Yet what author first published humbleThe pentameter, which Horace calls exiguum,Hor. Ars 77 because it has a foot less than the hexameter. For the same reason he says, versibus impariter junctis.Hor. Ars 75 elegies, the critics dispute, and the controversy still waits the determination of a judge. Rage armed Archilochus with the iambic of his own invention. The sock and the majestic buskin assumed this measure as adapted for dialogue, and to silence the noise of the populace, and calculated for action. To celebrate gods, and the sons of gods, and the vict