Frontispiece to Bentley’s translation of Horace, 1713

Quintus Horatius Flaccus
(65 BCE – 8 BCE)

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Odes (Horace)

Ars Poetica ("The Art of Poetry")
Carminum Liber Tertius (The Necessity For Reform)
Epistulae ("Letters")

Carmina ("Odes")
Nunc est bibendum (Ode 1.27)
Divis orte bonis (Ode 4.5)

Sermones ("Satires")

"Multa petentibus // desunt multa."
"Denen, die vieles verlangen, mangelt es an vielem." - Carmina 3,16,42f.

Odes I.4, Solvitur acris hiems... – A Hymn to Springtime

The changing season warns us of the shortness of life. Horace urges his friend Sestius – vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam (The brief sum of life forbids us cling to far-off hope).