Horace





Horace

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Venusia, Italy
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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.

Born in the small town of Venusia in the border region between Apulia and Lucania (Basilicata), Horace was the son of a freed slave, who owned a small farm in Venusia, and later moved to Rome to work as a coactor (a middleman between buyers and sellers at auctions, receiving 1% of the purchase price from each for his services). The elder Horace was able to spend considerable money on his son's education, accompanying him first to Rome for his primary education, and then sending him to Athens to study Greek and philosophy.

After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Horace...more


Average rating: 3.97 · 1,375 ratings · 58 reviews · 92 distinct works · Similar authors
Horace Odes and Epodes
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 785 ratings30 editions
The Odes of Horace
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 180 ratings — published -23 — 32 editions
Horace: Satires, Epistles a...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1719 — 9 editions
The Satires of Horace and P...
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions
Epistles Book II and Epistl...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1974 — 3 editions
The Satires
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings — published -35 — 17 editions
The Epistles of Horace: Bil...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
Satires and Epistles
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3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1893 — 10 editions
The Complete Works Of Horace
4.9 of 5 stars 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1963 — 4 editions
Arte poética
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1974 — 5 editions
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“Carpe diem."

(Odes: I.11)”
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“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”
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“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
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