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BIRTH.—EDUCATION.—CAMPAIGN WITH BRUTUS AND CASSIUS
CHAPTER II
RETURNS TO ROME AFTER BATTLE OF PHILIPPI.—EARLY POEMS
TO THE ROMAN PEOPLE
ALPHIUS
CHAPTER III
INTRODUCTION TO MAECENAS.—THE JOURNEY TO BRUNDUSIUM
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
LIFE IN ROME.—HORACE'S BORE.—EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE ROMAN DINNERS
CHAPTER VI
HORACE'S LOVE POETRY
CHAPTER VII
HORACE'S POEMS TO HIS FRIENDS.—HIS PRAISES OF CONTENTMENT
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
HORACE'S RELATIONS WITH AUGUSTUS.—HIS LOVE OF INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER X
NON OMNIS MORIAR
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Sir Theodore Martin
Published by Good Press, 2019
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can be read in no other sense. But while Horace had, beyond all doubt, made himself a strong party of friends who could appreciate his genius and attractive qualities, his appointment as military tribune excited jealousy among some of his brother officers, who considered that the command of a Roman legion should have been reserved for men of nobler blood—a jealousy at which he said, with his usual modesty, many years afterwards (Satires, I. vi. 45), he had no reason either to be surprised or to complain.
In B.C. 43, Brutus, with his army, passed from Macedonia to join Cassius in Asia Minor, and Horace took his part in their subsequent active and brilliant campaign there. Of this we get some slight incidental glimpses in his works. Thus, for example (Odes, II. 7), we find him reminding his comrade, Pompeius Varus, how
