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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).
The Athenian lawmaker was reportedly smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre in Aegina, Greece. [5] [6] [7] Duke Jing of Jin: 581 BC: The Chinese ruler was warned by a shaman that he would not live to see the new wheat harvest, to which he responded by executing the shaman.
Quintus Cicero also liked old-fashioned and harsh punishments, like putting a person convicted of patricide into a sack and throwing him into the sea. Such convicts were traditionally "stripped, scourged, sewn up in a sack together with [a] dog, a cock, a viper, and a monkey, and thrown into a river or the sea to drown". [ 9 ]
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". [44]
Marcus Tullius Cicero [a] (/ ˈ s ɪ s ə r oʊ / SISS-ə-roh; Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlli.ʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, [4] who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. [5]
Quinctius Hirpinus, a friend of the poet Horace. [59] Gaius Quinctius Atticus, consul suffectus in November and December in AD 69. Publius Quinctius Scapula, mentioned by Pliny the Elder as an instance of sudden death. [60]
The gens Septimia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.The gens first appears in history towards the close of the Republic, and they did not achieve much importance until the latter half of the second century, when Lucius Septimius Severus obtained the imperial dignity.
16th-century French scholar Denis Lambin proposed that the figure of Nasidienus Rufus ("big red nose") in the poetry of Roman writer Horace is a "thinly veiled" parody of Salvidienus. [4] Salvidienus is a point of view character in John Williams' epistolary novel Augustus. In the novel his betrayal of Octavian and downfall occur earlier in the ...