Horace Quotes


Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.


Citations

Horace. Odes and Epodes. Translated by Niall Rudd, Harvard University Press, 2004, p. 35.

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Horace
Horace
  • Born: December 8, 0065
  • Died: November 27, 0008
  • Nationality: Roman
  • Profession: Soldier

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about 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."