biography
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Horace
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in full Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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| lived:
| (65–8 BC)
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| biography:
| Latin poet and satirist, born near Venusia, Italy. The son of a freed slave, he was educated in Rome and Athens. While in Athens he joined Brutus, and fought at Philippi. Back in Italy, he joined the civil service, but had to write verses to avoid poverty. His earliest works were chiefly satires and lampoons, and through the influence of Virgil he came under the patronage of Maecenas, a minister of Octavianus. Given a farm in the Sabine Hills, he devoted himself to writing, and became the unrivalled lyric poet of his time. He produced his greatest work, the three books of Odes, in 19 BC. |
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