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Title

The Satires and Epistles of Horace : a modern English verse translation / by Smith Palmer Bovie.

Author

Horace

Publication

Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2003?], c1959.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bovie, Smith Palmer
• Bovie, Smith Palmer.

Description

318 p. : 1 map; 21 cm.

Subject

Horace > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Note

• Facsim. of ed. published, 1959.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Latin.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Satires -- Introduction to Book One -- 1. Don't go overboard -- 2. Adultery is childish -- 3. But no one asked you to sing -- 4. And when I have time, I put something down on paper -- 5. From Rome to Brindisi, with stops -- 6. I am only a freedman's son -- 7. King Rex: off with his head -- 8. A little Walpurgisnacht music -- 9. Bored to distraction -- 10. The fine art of criticism -- Introduction to Book Two -- 1. To write or not to write? (A talk with my lawyer) -- 2. Plain living and high thinking -- 3. A Stoic sermon -- 4. Gourmet a la mode -- 5. How to recoup your losses -- 6. The town mouse and the country mouse -- 7. My slave is free to speak up for himself -- 8. Nasidienus has some friends in for dinner -- Epistles -- Introduction to Book One -- 1. To Maecenas (20 B.C.): Philosophy has clipped my wings -- 2. To Lollius Maximus (22 B.C.): Homer teaches us all how to live, but we have to do it ourselves --^
• 3. To Julius Florus, campaigning with Tiberius (20 B.C.): How are you out there with all those officers? What are you doing with your spare time? -- 4. To Albius Tibullus (24 B.C.): Don't be depressed, my friend. I'm not! -- 5. To Torquatus (22 B.C.): Come to dinner tonight, the twenty-second -- 6. To Numicius (no date): Nil admirari -- 7. To Maecenas (no date): I won't be coming to town this winter. Sorry! -- 8. To Celsus Albinovanus, campaigning with Tiberius (20 B.C.): I'm depressed. Hope you aren't -- 9. To Tiberius (20 B.C.): Recommending to you my friend Septimius -- 10. To Aristius Fuscus (21 B.C.): You can have the city. I'll take the country -- 11. To Bullatius (no date): How was your trip? -- 12. To Iccius, in Sicily (20 B.C.): Hope you are doing well in your work for the Department of External Revenue. But do look up Pompeius Grosphus. Here's the latest news from Rome -- 13. To Vinius Asina (23 B.C.): Please give these odes to Augustus, and watch what you're doing! --^
• 14. To the foreman on my farm (no date): You can have the city; I'll take the country -- 15. To Numonius Vala (22 B.C.): I'm planning to come south for the winter. What's it like down there? -- 16. To Quinctius (25 B.C.): Virtue is wisdom -- 17. To Scaeva (no date): How to win friends and influence patrons -- 18. To Lollius Maximus (20 B.C.): How to influence patrons: be yourself! -- 19. To Maecenas (20 B.C.): My lyric poetry is not derivative, it's contributive -- 20. To my first book of epistles (20 B.C.): I guess it's up to you to make your own way in the world -- Introduction to Book Two -- 1. The Epistle to Augustus: The literary tradition, and the role of our Roman writers -- 2. To Julius Florus, still campaigning with Tiberius: Literary ambitions, and how to survive them -- 3. The art of poetry.

ISBN

0226067777

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library