The Epistles of Horace Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...note. fraternum foedus, cp. 10, 4. 36. A young heifer is fattening for a thank-offering, vowed for the return of you both vestrum not tuum. When Horace offered a thankoffering for his own safety he could afford nothing but a lamb. Od. 2,17, 32. His friend's return is a greater occasion, as is that of his friend Numida. Cp. Od. 1, 36, 1 Et ture et fidibus iuvatPlacare et vituli sanguine debito Custodes Numidae deos. EPISTLE IV. 1. Albi, for the poet Albius Tibullus, see Introduction 3. candide 'honest and yet friendly'. Horace is fond of applying this epithet to his friends, e.g. to Maecenas Epod. 14, 5; to Furnius, Sat. 1, 10, 86. And Vergil, Plotius, and Varius are animae, quales neque candidiores Terra tulit, neque queis me sit devinctior alter. Orelli also quotes Martial 4, 87, 4 Nil exactius eruditinsquest, Sed nec candidius benigniusque. By sermonum he means his Satires. 2. regions Pedana. Pedum is probably the modern Gallicano between Tivoli (Tibur) and Palaestrina (Praeneste) and about 18 miles from Rome. It stood on a hill between two torrents which nearly encircled it. The neighbourhood was a favourite summer resort of the Romans. 3. quod vincat 'a poem to surpass'. Pr. 150: tut it is also a dependent sentence, and as such would have the subj. Cp. 13, 17. Cassi Parmensis. The identity of Cassius of Parma has been a subject of much controversy: some believing that he is the same poet as the rapid writer ridiculed in Sat. 1, 10, 62, who however seems certainly to have been a different person. Cassius of Parma is probably the Lucius Cassius, whose letter to Cicero is preserved in the Cicero correspondence (Fam. 12, 13); who was one of the assassins of Julius Caesar; and who, having afterwards joined Sextus Pompeius and Antony, was execut...