1893 The Works Of Horace Antique Roman Literature Book Poetry Quintus Flaccus

The Works Of Horace - Quintus Horatius Flaccus In English Prose

Translated by The Rev. J.C. Elgood

With Glossary and Explanations

Published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co: London 1893

"Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC - 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as 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."