The Works of Horace: Edited, With Explanatory Notes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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His father was a freedman of the town of Venusia, the modern Venosa, the inhabitants of which be longed to the Horatian tribe, and had received his manumission before his son was born. He had realized a moderate independ ence in the vocation of coactor, a name borne indifl'erently by the collectors of public revenue, and of money at sales by public auction. To which of these classes he belonged is uncertain, but most probably to the latter. With the fruits of his industry he had purchased a small property near Venusia, upon the banks of the Aufidus, the modern Ofanto, in the midst of the Apennines, upon the doubtful boundaries of Lucania and Apulia. Here the poet was born, and in this picturesque region of mountain, forest, and stream the boy became imbued with the love of nature, which distinguished him through life.

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