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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Classical Latin: [ˈkʷiːntʊs (h)ɔˈraːtiʊs ˈfɫakːʊs]; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), [1] commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ ˈ h ɒr ɪ s /), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known as Horace, a poet in the time of Augustus, during the first century BC. Lucius Horatius L. f., buried at Casilinum in Campania , in a tomb dating from the latter half of the first century BC, built by his freedwoman, identified in the inscription as "Silenium".
The lyric poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus was another philhellene. He is notable for his words, "Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artis intulit agresti Latio" (Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium), meaning that after the conquest of Greece the defeated Greeks created a cultural hegemony ...
Drawing of Aelian made in 1610 Marcus Actorius Naso - writer who possibly wrote a lost biography of Julius Caesar. [44] [45] ... Quintus Horatius Flaccus - writer;
Iccius, a friend of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, who tried to dissuade him from seeking adventure and material wealth. In 25 BC, Horace addressed an ode to Iccius, who was preparing to accompany Gaius Aelius Gallus on his expedition to Arabia Felix .
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the poet known in English as Horace; one of the Horatii, three members of the gens Horatia who fought to the death against the Curiatii; Marcus Horatius Pulvillus, consul in 509 and 507 BC; Horatius Cocles, hero who defended the Sublician Bridge; Marcus Horatius Barbatus, consul in 449 BC
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (), Satirae (Satires).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).; Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
Kiessling's research largely dealt with critiques and commentaries of ancient classical texts. His best written effort being an extensive commentary on the works of Horace, a work that appeared in three volumes from 1884 to 1889, and after Kiessling's death, was edited by Richard Heinze (1867–1929).