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Horatius


Born
Venusia, Apulia or Lucania (Basilicata), Italia, Roman republic, Italy
Genre
Poetry


Odes and Satires Roman lyric poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus exerted a major influence on English poetry.

(December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC)

Horace, the son of a freed slave, who owned a small farm, later moved to Rome to work as a coactor, a middleman between buyers and sellers at auctions, receiving 1% of the purchase price for his services. The father ably spent considerable money on education of his son, accompanied him first to Rome for his primary education, and then sent him to Athens to study Greek and philosophy.

After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Horace joined the army, serving under the generalship of Brutus. He fought as a staff officer (tribunus militum) in the battle of Philippi. Alluding to famous literary mod ...more

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Odes and Epodes
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“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace
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“Carpe diem."

(Odes: I.11)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace
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“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”
― Horace
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