Category: Horace
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of May – “…a small domain, the fine breath of Muses’ Grecian song, and the spiteful crowd to spurn.”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Today is the Twentieth of May, the day of the month designated by...
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Wordsmiths Needed: Revisiting Horace and Book III, Ode XXIX “To Maecenas”
I have blogged before on Horace’s Ode 3, 29, but upon coming today once again on a cite to John Dryden’s “Happy the Man,” which is based directly on this...
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) – Ode 3, 29
The entire poem is outstanding as is reproduced in full below, but here is a highlight (Dryden version): “Happy he, Self-centred, who each night can say My life is...