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Also known as Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Q. Horatius Flaccus, Horatius, Horatius Flaccus

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."

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Horace, also known as Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was a male poet, writer, and philosopher from Ancient Rome. Born in Venosa in 65 BCE, he died in Rome in 8 BCE. He was a member of the Horatia gens and identified as a Roman. Horace wrote in Latin and is associated with notable works including the Ars Poetica, Satires, Carmen saeculare, and Odes.

He studied under Cratippus of Pergamon and Aristos of Ascalon. His work location was Rome. Horace is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, and the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary. He is referenced by 1,887 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1898
Died
1982
Works
79

Top works

  • Odi et amo
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  • No retreat

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Origin
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (Venusia, December 8, 65 BC – Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. Born in the small town of Venusia in the border region between Apulia and Lucania. Horace was the son of a freedman, who owned a small farm in Venusia, and later moved to Rome to work as a coactor (a middleman between buyers and sellers at auctions, receiving 1% of the purchase price from each for his services). <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/HORACE">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Quamquam ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.
  • What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?
  • Bona pars hominum est decepta cupidine falso 'nil satis est', inquit, 'quia tanti quantum habeas sis.
  • Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.
  • Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatumdicat et exacto contentus tempore vitacedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus.
  • Non satis est puris versum perscribere verbis.

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Key facts

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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8 December 65 BC
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Venusia, Italy, Roman Republic
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27 November 8 BC (aged 56)
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Rome, Italy, Roman Empire
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Rome, Italy
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Latin
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Lyric poetry
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Odes"The Art of Poetry"

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Horace, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

21 sections
Contents
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Adulthood
  • Poet
  • Knight
  • Works
  • Historical context
  • Themes
  • Reception
  • Antiquity
  • Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • Age of Enlightenment
  • 19th century on
  • Translations
  • In literature and the arts
  • See also
  • Notes
  • Citations
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

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."

Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (Satires and Epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (Epodes). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Horace” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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