Horace

By Martin, Theodore

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Title:	Horace
Author:	Martin, Theodore
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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Preface: No writer of antiquity has taken a stronger hold upon the modern mind than Horace. The causes of this are manifold, but three may be especially noted: his broad human sympathies, his vigorous commonsense, and his consummate mastery of expression. The mind must be either singularly barren or singularly cold to which Horace does not speak. The scholar, the statesman, the soldier, the man of the world, the town-bred man, the lover of the country, the thoughtful and the careless, he who reads much, and he who reads little, all find in his

Table of Contents
CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. BIRTH.--EDUCATION.--CAMPAIGN WITH BRUTUS AND CASSIUS CHAPTER II. RETURNS TO ROME AFTER BATTLE OF PHILIPPI.--EARLY POEMS CHAPTER III. INTRODUCTION TO MAECENAS.--THE JOURNEY TO BRUNDUSIUM CHAPTER IV. PUBLICATION OF FIRST BOOK OF SATIRES.--HIS FRIENDS.-- RECEIVES THE SABINE FARM FROM MAECENAS CHAPTER V. LIFE IN ROME.--HORACE'S BORE.--EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE ROMAN DINNERS CHAPTER VI. HORACE'S LOVE-POETRY CHAPTER VII. HORACE'S POEMS TO HIS FRIENDS.--HIS PRAISES OF CONTENTMENT CHAPTER VIII. PREVAILING BELIEF IN ASTROLOGY.--HORACE'S VIEWS OF A HEREAFTER.--RELATIONS WITH MAECENAS--BELIEF IN THE PERMANENCE OF HIS OWN FAME CHAPTER IX. HORACE'S RELATIONS WITH AUGUSTUS--HIS LOVE OF INDEPENDENCE CHAPTER X. DELICACY OF HORACE'S HEALTH.-HIS CHEERFULNESS--LOVE OF BOOKS.--HIS PHILOSOPHY PRACTICAL.--EPISTLE TO AUGUSTUS. --DEATH