Horace Quotes
We are all gathered to the same fold.
Horace. Odes and Epodes. Translated by C. E. Bennett, Harvard UP, 1914, p. 119.
Franklin suggested most of the text and graphic symbols that were minted on what is generally considered the first American Coin. The purpose of this text, which appears in the Center of one side of the coin was to emphasize the unity of the first 13 colonies just declaring their independence. This coin is for American collectors, one of the most valuable.
The major purpose of the Black Hand was to create a single empire of ‘Greater Serbia’---a nation uniting all people of Serb extraction throughout Europe and the Balkans. They wanted to combine the lands where ethnic Serbs lived regardless of what other nation the land was a part of.
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."
