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Horace

65–8 BCE · 1st century BCE · Also known as Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was a leading Roman poet of the age of Augustus. The son of a freedman from Venusia, he fought for Brutus at Philippi and later won the patronage of Maecenas. His Odes, Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica, with their wit and moral reflection, were among the most widely read Latin poetry in later European literature.

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