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Excerpt from Horace: The Odes
All three Books refer generally to some well-known events; thus Horace is in possession of his Sabine farm, which was given him by Maecenas about 33 b.c. (i. 17; II. 13, 18; III. 13, the civil wars are over (31 bc), but the empire has not yet settled down again after the confusion (i. 2, 35; II. 1, 6; III. Augustus, first so called in 27, is entering upon the path of reform (i. 12; II. 15, 16; III. 1 - 6, and wars in Spain (ended in 19 Parthia (ended in and Scythia (ended much later) are still being waged (i. 2, 12, 19, 29, 35; II. 2, 6, 9, 11, 13, 16; III. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, But only in the few following Odes can any approximation be made to a definite date.
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Excerpt from Horace: The Odes
§ 1. Life of Horace. - Quintus Horatius Flaccus, born December 8th, 65 B.C., was the son of a freedman, a coactor, or collector of moneys, occupying a small farm at Venusia in Apulia. The birth of Horace occurred after the enfranchisement of his father, so that he was ingenuus, i.e. the son of free parents; but nevertheless he incurred some cavil on the score of his parentage. At the age of twelve or thereabouts he was brought to Rome to receive the best education the city could give, and thus instead of attending the country school Whither many of his superiors in station went, he became a pupil of some of the leading teachers of the senatorial and equestrian youth. In particular he records his school days with one Orbilius, whose cane was always in his hand. He went to Athens at the age of eighteen, that being to Rome what the English Universities are to us; and there he studied the Epicurean philosophy.
After the assassination of Caesar(44 B.C.) and the flight of the murderers, one of them, Brutus, met Horace at Athens, and appointed him to a command in the army of the republican party. That army was routed at Philippi in 42, and amongst the rest Horace left his shield behind him and fled for his life. When the victorious party of Octavianus (Augustus) shortly afterwards issued free pardon to the mass of the republicans, Horace immediately returned to Italy. He found himself ruined - his father dead, his farm confiscated, and himself without influence or property. He took the post of a clerk to the Quaestors, and turned to composing Satires, the only field of literature not already occupied by some contemporary writer.
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