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INTRODUCTION. xiii H dentes tho interioretice of the od in humanassairs is calis such Hachin tho Wisdommi Ools 'an piet tho rs o virtuos With amiablo facility.
Sat. 1 5 101 namque deos didici securum agere Evom. Od. 1. 31. 2 insanieri sapientia. Sat. 1. 1. 24 ridentem dicere verum quid vetat P. HOR. L 2
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Augustus asked to b his private secretur Nas nos nioolisti man, and there mus have been Somethingvery loveable an very remni kable in ne homMaecenaS, alter an unbrohen intimac o 30 ears, could commen to his mastor oti his eathbed illitho ords Horatii Flacci ut mei memor esto.'
2 Tho Satires, tho Episties, and tho ars
Ep. 1. 20. 24 corporis zigui, praecanum, Solibu altum, irasci celerem tamen ut placabilis essem. brevis et obeSus.
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INTRODUCTION. XVan rate prio that perio his ritings are Without politica colour ut iter it e no Only ceases ob neutral, ut becomes definitet a Supporter of thene Monarchy and especialty in the des, deliberalelyplaces his poetica pomer at iis disposai.
an follies o man in the occasio no ior anger
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Lut for aughtor. At the samo timo his aughtor must notrae misinterpreted it is in no ense cynicalor contemptuous ut is Sed deliberalely. Horace kno that he was Ot adapte foro reueher Or a
prophet, ut he was admirabi qualisie to malae
assignexto B. C. Mand the secon to . o. 19' Theyare simila in character to the Satiros ut altog0ther Superior to the nos ni in style ut in alter. The contain the ripe result o the poeUS ObServation o me an mannors δ' sol olore us illi that apparenti negligent grace hicli is ready the resulto perfect kill and whicli add so much to thecharmi good conversation δ' and good letters .'
Horace does notisses himself to avo callod his Satiros by that name, ut ather o have sed the term Sermones conversations. When hoWover e says of these posm thatthey only dissor hom ordinar conversation in the factis thoirscanning Sat. 1. 4. 47 nisi quod pede certori sermoni dissert, sermo merus hemus no bo alien to litorally, forcit is his objoet to disguis thesain Whic have been talion it them. O courso in ancient times and in modern times prioth introductio of hea postage letter-Writin WRA Osten
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Tho Ars Poetica is, ascit nam implies, a didactio poemaiving rules ior poetica composition. Therapodsi are Horace'sirat attemps at Wrilinglyrio poetry. The are an imitationi the satirical iambic o Archilochus , an are thus to Some extent connected illi ho Satires hicli ere ritie atthe fame period. The bitternes o Archilochus as, hoWever entiret alien iro the eas temper i Horace, and the libellous iambics' in hic hovent imaginar Splee o imaginar persons are
It is oti thoriour Book of Odes that tho iam os
destrinito reat a subjectisomeWhat informassy, have put thoirviows formard in th shape of Tollers. Tho term pod is notissed by Horace, ho ad thesevorsos iambi, and is derived tro the versus ἐπέ δο a hori verseor refrain, usuali alimeter Iambie, Which Archilochus som0timos alternals Wit tho regula Trimeter Iambio and whichoceur regulari in podes 1-10. Cf. Epod. 1. 1 ibis Li- reis inter alta navium t amice, proFugnacula. Hs is sal to have invente the metro speciali sor his iampoons A. . 79 Archilochum proprio rabies armavit iambo. criminosis iambis Od. 1. 16 2, here he offers to burn
He expressi states that these poem are hollyranreat, Ep. 1. 19. 24 numeros animosque secutus Archilochi non res et agenti verba Lycamben.
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publisho an circulate separatet me cannot teli, but tho division into book atinos certaini datostro Horace' time and tho arrangementis tho desin them is probabi his Wn. The martis o caretularrvngement are Ver olear. Thus in thotars Booktho rs thres de are addresse to Maecenas,
eregi monumentum Ere perennius
clearly preSuppoSe a complete an final colloctionis tho docto hicli it is appended. Tho dat o the productioni thes three Booksis generali considere to te etW00 30 . c. thodat o the Cloopatra ode and 23 B. C. the date of tho deuth o Marcellus, hocin 1. 12 4 is spolien
Tho latest referetico in the podes is to the battis of
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natus est ut non modo oeculare carmen componendum
injunaeerit, sed et Vindelicam victoriam iberii Drusique privign um uorum, eumque coegerit propter hoc tribus carminum libris eae longo intervallo quartum addere.
The Carmen Mec dare is a Sapphic do ritto tobe sun publici by a chorus i ouilis an maidens in the great 'Secula Games exhibite by Augustus B. C. 17'
Gree modeis. Terence optes Menander Propertius Callimachus, Lucretius Empedocles, Virgit Hesiodand Homer: so Horace in the dos copios the Gree lyrio riters The portive lay of Anacreon,
Cf. 4. 1. 1 intermissa, Venus, diu i rursus bella moves the vocabular to is considerabi altere and ther is a marheddissertino in the proSOdy. The fudisscriptionis thos gamos is give in an inscription discovere in 1890, printe in Lanciani' Paga and Christian Rome.
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The ne Xhibit grace, polisti, elegance the theraim ut impositi Statelines an Sonorou dignity. The two varieties are holi disserent, an it ouldb as Oolisti to compare the lyrios o Horricli orSi Jolin Suckling mith say, Tennyson's do on the Dosithisi the Duk of Wollingtonis to compare Such exquisite gem a I. 5 suis multa . . . or 3 9 donec
gratus ... With the Roman-Odes ut the commenoement
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Gree metres to the requirements of the Latintongue. To examine in detai ho iar se has succeede Would require a rea se, ut anyone ho illcompare his Alcaic Wit thos o Alcaeus mill eo that his Alcaic statim is, though a copy, at the Same time atinos a ne creation the statoly thir linesspecially, hic hear the eight o the tanga, bet mo change that iis origina trochai movement
se quotatio in note is hardi recognigable Theloit ring an rhythmi torcs o Horaco's est desin his metro has neve been appronched.
euriosa felicitas Horatii, etronius. Cf. A. . 408 seq. - Ρ. 438 corrige, sodes. Sat. 1. 10. 72 stilum verta8.
A. P. 291 limo labor. ' Sat. 1. 10 69 recidere.
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constant ve ac the verses to tho an tyr loc them p in Our des for nine ears V cutdown and correct te times unti no criticis canfitid a flam . Thoussultis at this labour, in Horace'scase, is that his verse Seem periecti unlaboured. Henc it is that tho have for reges at one tempted an dose translation it sesem perfecti eas toreproduce them an it is, in iaci, o hard that noton translation in a hundred is more than readable. This is no the highest raiso, io the obtest poetrydoes no depen o forni, an translations o Jobor o Isaiah, o Homer o Lucretius may be notunWorth o the original, ut it oes he that the hape in hicli Horace present his ideas is ivnsurpaSsed excellenue. Indeed the Strennii, tersenos and lucidit o Latin rendo it an nrivalled instrumen to the expression o simplo trullis illi monumenta dignit an forco ad thoreior tocomplete maSter o Sue an instrument complete masterno metrical flect an it is olear o Someo tho des clin more readit to the memor inanalmos an poeir in the orid. As homove the schnica skill o Horace is un- doubtest, o, o the ther hand he oes no exhibit great pomer o imagination. Hem no a reat creative poet there are te ne ideas in the Od0s.
A. P. 441 incudi reddere erSUS. A. . 388 nonumque prematur in annum. A. P. 291 perfecturi decie3... castigavit ad ungilem.
