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The Epistles (or Letters) of Horace were published in two books, in 20 BC and 14 BC, respectively. Epistularum liber primus ( First Book of Letters ) is the seventh work by Horace, published in the year 20 BC.
The translations of the original epistle are typically in the form of prose. [6] "Written, like Horace's other epistles of this period, in a loose conversational frame, Ars Poetica consists of 476 lines containing nearly 30 maxims for young poets." [7] But Ars Poetica is not a systematic treatise of theory, and it wasn't intended to be. It is ...
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ode-writing became highly fashionable in England and a large number of aspiring poets imitated Horace both in English and in Latin. [89] In a verse epistle to Augustus (Epistle 2.1), in 12 BC, Horace argued for classic status to be awarded to contemporary poets, including Virgil and apparently ...
Lucius Orbilius Pupillus (114 BC – c. 14 BC) was a Latin grammarian of the 1st century BC, who taught at school, first at Benevento and then at Rome, where the poet Horace was one of his pupils. Horace ( Epistles , ii) criticizes his old schoolmaster and describes him as plagosus (a flogger), and Orbilius has become proverbial as a ...
From Horace, Epistles: equo ne credite: do not trust the horse: From Virgil, Aeneid, II. 48–49; a reference to the Trojan Horse. erga omnes: in relation to everyone: Used in law, especially international law, to denote a kind of universal obligation. ergo: therefore: Denotes a logical conclusion (see also cogito ergo sum). errantis voluntas ...
Under the word or heading; abbreviated s.v. Used to cite a work, such as a dictionary, with alphabetically arranged entries, e.g. "Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. 'horse. ' "" sublimis ab unda: Raised from the waves: Motto of King Edward VII and Queen Mary School, Lytham subsiste sermonem statim: stop speaking immediately: Succisa virescit
– Horace, Epistles, Book I, epistle X, line 24. navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse: to sail is necessary; to live is not necessary: Attributed by Plutarch to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, who, during a severe storm, commanded sailors to bring food from Africa to Rome. Translated from Plutarch's Greek "πλεῖν ἀνάγκη, ζῆν ...
The Latin phrase Epicuri de grege porcum (literally, "A pig from the herd of Epicurus") was a phrase first used by the Roman poet Horace. The phrase appears in an epistle to Albius Tibullus, giving advice to the moody fellow poet: [1]