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Conversation Pieces (Satines) Book I + II
Refraiuns (Epodes)
Poems (odes) Book I, II, III*, IV
*6 How Are We Fallen! delicta mairum
*7 Keep Faith, Asterie!
Letters in Verse (Epistles) Book I, II
Jubilee Hymn (Carmen Sacculare) written to honor Augustan's revivel of the secular games.
The Art of Poetry (shorter than a book of the Georgies (Virgil)
The first 3 books appeared in 23 B.C. when Horace was
42 yrs. old. The book was written 10 yrs later.
(mainly political national - its 4 + 14th odes honour the
campaigns of Drusus + Tiberius in the Tyral + Grisons, 15 BC)
"Horace has nothing to surpass the piquent grace of the
ode to Pyreha - the dispair of so many translators. It is written in
the "4th" Asclepiad stanza. Of this stanza's other is
occurrances the best are the lines of comfort to Asterie
weeping for her absent lover......."
- Miscomini - after printing in Venice his 1st work in
Florence dates from 1481 + he remained active there until
about 1495.