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Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace ( ), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
Carpe diem
Latin phrase
Sapere aude
latin phrase
in medias res
narrative that opens mid-plot, or 'in the middle of things'
ab ovo
adverb meaning "from the beginning"
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Quote from Horace's Odes
Pomponius Porphyrion
3rd-century Latin grammarian
Helenius Acron
Roman grammarian
Nullius in verba
Royal Society motto: take no one's word for it
Ut pictura poesis
Latin phrase
Aristius Fuscus
friend of the Roman poet Horace
Epicuri de grege porcum
latin phrase meaning "A pig from the herd of Epicurus"