Horace is read about 1,126 times a day, in 103 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?The poet Augustus kept close. Horace wrote odes so precise that two millennia later they're still taught as the standard for Latin lyric - and he did it while navigating the collapse of the Roman Republic and the birth of an empire, pen in one hand, allegiance in the other.
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Drawing, Stage Design, Apollo with Famous Men and Muses, early 19th century (CH 18543425)
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Horace street plaque, Warsaw
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La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri (Padova, 1727) (frontispiece and title page) (cropped 2)In their own words 4
, What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?
Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.
O matre pulchra filia pulchrior
About this person
Quintus Horatius Flaccus fought for the republic at Philippi in 42 BC and lost. The defeat could have ended him, but Maecenas - Octavian's fixer - saw something and brought him into the fold. What followed was a career spent chronicling the new Augustan order in verse that somehow stayed light on its feet: the Odes became the only Latin lyrics the rhetorician Quintilian thought worth reading, the Satires and Epistles turned hexameter into a tool for wry moral observation, and the Epodes bit down in iambic. Ancient critics noticed the trick - Persius said Horace could make a friend laugh while sliding a finger onto every flaw. Whether he was Rome's most graceful sidestep artist or, as Dryden put it, "a well-mannered court slave" depends on where you stand. He died on 27 November 8 BC, sixty-five years into a life spent proving you could write for power without losing the tune.
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