Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Country

Ancient Rome, Roman Empire

Languages

Classical Latin

Dates

65 BCE — 8 BCE

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."