horace

     

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (Venosa, December 8, 65 BC - Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking worl as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.

Trivia about horace

  • In Augustan Rome Maecenas was a patron of Virgil & this "Satires" poet
  • Sherlock Holmes finds "as much sense in Hafiz", a 14th C. Persian poet, "as in" this Roman with an "H" name
  • In his "Odes". this satirist & poet referred to Virgil as "half of my soul"
  • The "Odes" of this Roman poet have been called "jewels five-words-long that... sparkle forever"