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Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BCE) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the Treasury, and began to write poetry. Maecenas, lover of literature, to whom Virgil and Varius introduced Horace in 39, became his friend and made him largely independent by giving him a farm. After 30 Horace knew and aided with his pen the emperor Augustus, who after Virgil's death in 19 engaged him to celebrate imperial affairs in poetry. Horace refused to become Augustus's private secretary and died
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 1 January 1929
ISBN-10 : 0674992148 | ISBN-13: 9780674992146
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Release date: 1 January 1929
ISBN-10 : 0674992148 | ISBN-13: 9780674992146
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