The Works of Horace: Edited, with Explanatory Notes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Horace, Horace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1334211566 ISBN 13: 9781334211560

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Works of Horace: Edited, With Explanatory Notes

At what age Horace lost his father is uncertain, but probably before he left Rome for Athens, to complete his education in the Greek literature and philosophy, under native teachers. This he did some time between the age of seventeen and twenty. At Athens he found many young men of the leading Roman families, engaged in the same pursuits with himself. He was no careless student of the classics of Grecian literature, and, with a natural enthusiasm, he made his first poetical essays in their flexible and noble language. His usual good sense, however, soon caused him to abandon the hopeless task of emulating the Greek writers on their own ground, and he directed his efforts to transfusing into his own language some of the grace and melody of these masters of song. In the political lull between the battle of Phar salia, A. U. C. 706 (b. C. And the death of Julius Caesar, A. U. C. 710 (b. O. Horace was enabled to devote himself without in terruption to the tranquil pursuits of the scholar. But when, after the latter event, Brutus came to Athens, and the patrician youth of Rome, fired with zeal for the cause of republican liberty, joined his standard, Horace, infected by the general enthusiasm, accepted a military command in the army which was destined to encounter the legions of Antonius and Octavius. His rank was that of tribune, and his appointment excited jealousy among his brother officers, who considered that the command of a Roman legion should have been reserved for men of nobler blood. But he had manifestly a strong party of friends, who had learned to appreciate his genius and attractive qualities. It is certain that he secured the esteem of his commanders, and bore an active part in the perils and difficulties of the campaign, which termi nated in the total defeat of the republican party at Philippi, A. U. C. 712 (b. C.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1334211566
• ISBN 13: 9781334211560
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434