Horace
historical figure · 5 works · 13 mentions · 15 anchored passages · author page
Horatius · Horatius Flaccus
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman poet referenced as a temporal marker for ancient knowledge of India.
Quid quod ne reperisse quidem Indiam ullo modo dici possunt Lusitani, quae tot a saeculis fuerat celeberrima.
quod Cicero dixit:
It was already known as early as the time of the emperor Augustus as the following quotation from Horace shows:
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman poet quoted on animals defending themselves by instinct.
Horace has said, “the wolf attacks with its teeth, the bull with its horns, and whence is this knowledge derived but from instinct?
” There is a well known passage in Horace, “ Powerful sovereigns reign over their own subjects, and the supreme being over sovereigns themselves.
Tully, in the first book of his Offices, assigns such force to the obligation of promises, that he calls fidelity the foundation of justice, which Horace also styles the sister of justice, and the Platonists often call justice, truth, which Apuleius has translated fidelity, and Simonides has defined justice to be not only returning what one has received, but also speaking the truth.
Letters to Lucilius
Roman poet cited twice as an authority, once on the indifference of thirst to luxury, once on human inconstancy.
Such men are these as Horatius Flaccus describes this one, never the same, nor even like himself;
And so Horace says excellently that it makes no difference to thirst in what cup or by how elegant a hand the water is served.
Intending to describe an infamous man notorious for excessive refinement in his luxury, Horace says:
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman poet quoted for a line illustrating the term nomen in banking practice.
Nomen signifies the name of the debtor, as in the line of Horace:
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Roman poet who composed an official ode celebrating Augustus's marriage legislation.
A well-known statute of the Emperor Augustus, celebrated by Horace in an official ode as the prince’s greatest legislative achievement, had for its object the encouragement and regulation of marriage and the imposition of penalties on celibacy.