The Works of Horace (1887)
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The Works of Horace (1887)
by James Lonsdale and Samuel Lee
Full Title: The Works of Horace Rendered into English Prose with Introductions, Running Analysis. Notes and an Index
7 ¾ x 4 ¾. In English. Published by MacMillan and Co., London, 1887. The Globe Edition. Complete. English Prose, edited by Lonsdale & Lee. Red morocco with elegant gilt in spine compartments. Marbled edges and paste downs. Text block virtually new. Clean. Crisp. Signed prize binding. In excellent overall condition. (The image of Horace) we included on our website is NOT in the book.)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. He was the son of a freed slave, who moved to Rome to work as a coactor (a middleman between buyers and sellers at auctions. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Horace joined the army, serving under the generalship of Brutus. He fought in the Battle of Philippi. Later, he gained a profitable lifetime appointment as a scriba quaestorius, an official of the Treasury, which allowed him to practice his poetic art. Horace was a member of a literary circle that included Virgil and Lucius Varius Rufus, who introduced him to Maecenas, friend and confidant of Augustus. Upon his death bed, having no heirs, Horace relinquished his farm to his friend, the emperor Augustus, for imperial needs, and it stands today as a spot of pilgrimage for his admirers.
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