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Horatius Flaccus
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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oman poet, born at Venusium, in Apulia; was educated at Rome and in Athens, and when there in his twenty-first year joined Marcus Brutus, became a military tribune, and fought at Philippi, after which he submitted to the conqueror and returned to Rome to find his estate forfeited; for a time afterwards he had to be content with a frugal life, but by-and-by he attracted the notice of Virgil, and he introduced him to Mæcenas, who took him into his friendship and bestowed on him a small farm, to which he retired and on which he lived in comfort for the rest of his life; his works, all in verse, consist of odes, satires, and epistles, and reveal an easy-going man of the world, of great practical sagacity and wise remark; they abound in happy phrases and quotable passages (65-8 B.C.).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Horatius Flaccus'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/horatius-flaccus.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
