Excerpt from Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera: With Annotations in English, Consisting Chiefly of the Delphin Commentaries Condensed, and of Selections From Doering and Others; To Which Is Added, the Delphin Ordo in the Margin
Ode I. Metre I. This first Ode was probably intended as a dedicatory piece, accompanying the first three books of the Carmina - Ode was not in use for two or three centuries after Horace. The subject, briefly, is - Every one has his ruling passion, or favourite pursuit - the Author's is poetry.
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