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QUINT HORATI FLACCIO PER A.

ACCEDUNT

CLAVIS METRICA ET NOTAE ANGLICAE

CURA

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BE it remembered thatin the twenty-fifth da ossifty. third ear of the Independenee of the nite Litile M illiins of the sat distriet have de book the right hereos the claim a proprietOIε Quinti Horatii Flacci opera Aeeedunt lavis accommodatae. Cura Gould. In conformine Unite States, entilled' An aet for the neour; the optes of maps, charis, and books to the auieopies during the times therein mentioned ' an a Supplementar to an et entille 'An aet for the e securing the optes os maps, haris, an hooks t tisueti copies during the times therein mentioned; uno of to the arta of designing enmaving, and elehin histo

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attached himself to Brutus, and was in tho batile o Philippi, with the rank of militur tribuno. fled in the rout of thal

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The writings o Horace have an uir of Danlines and pennes abo ut them a mani simplicity, and a contempt of aD sectation, o the litti pride os a uin and mea conceniment, Whicli, ut once, tali hol ontur confidence. e canielieveth account hich e ives of his own charaeter Without scrupte or suspicion. That he was son of pleas ure is confessed; ut generali spuat in he was moderate and temperate in his pleasuros and his convivial hours seem to have been far more intellectual, an more enligi, tune by sociat wi and Wisdom, than are thos of the common her of Epicurea poets. Horace, O at the writers of antiquity most abound withthat practica good sense, and familia observation o lis and

distinguishing eatur os his Satiros; for his it Eeem rather forced and tris thei tone o soland understanding, adde tothei easy, conversational air, and a certain turn or fine raille-ry that fornas the secret by hicli the please. In variet undversatilit his lyricaenius is utarivalled by that os an poet with Whom, are acquaintes and there arem martis of inequalityori inseriorit to himself Whether his desis of the moraland philosophic hinx o the heroi the descriptiveri or thamatory the light, and the oyous; Mach separate species Would seem tot his peculiar province His episties evincea nowledge of the wealinessus of the human eari, hichwould do honou to a prosesse philosopher What Quintilian, and the modern after him, cal the ArtifIoetry,V seem toliave been only th third episti of the sucon book addressedio the Pisos The style an manne differ in no respect romthe forme episties. The observations are equali desultory, and we meet with the fame Strohes of satirical humour; hichappea unsultablerio a didacti piece.

See Elton's Specimens os the Classi Poets.