Anthon - THE WORKS OF HORACE - 1844 Leather LATIN Illus

WITH

ENGLISH NOTES,

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY.

BY

CHARLES ANTHON, LL.D.

LAY-PROFESSOR OF THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE,

NEW-YORK, AND RECTOR OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

A NEW EDITION,

WITH

CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS.

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street. 1844.

12mo. 7½ x 4½ inches (19.5 x 11 cm).

(xxxiii); 681; (4 [ads]) pages. Complete.

 

Bound in full leather with spine having five gilt-ruled compartments, and red morocco spine label titled in gilt. All edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece by Gimber, with tissue-guard present and in very good condition. Two leaves (4 pages) of ads bound in back. Text of Horace in Latin, with English explanatory notes.

In good antiquarian condition. Wear to extremities; outer hinges starting but secure, and moderate scuffing to front and rear covers. Small gouges to head of spine, and a stain on rear. Endpapers browned, with the upper third of the blank front free endpaper perished. Contemporary name and date on front endpapers, and a name on title page. Some foxing (heavier in some spots), with small insect nibbles to outer margin of last few pages. Binding is still strong, with no loose or missing pages.

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (Venusia, December 8, 65 BC – Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.

Born in the small town of Venusia in the border region between Apulia and Lucania. Horace was the son of a freedman, who owned a small farm in Venusia, and later moved to Rome to work as a coactor (a middleman between buyers and sellers at auctions, receiving 1% of the purchase price from each for his services). The elder Horace was able to spend considerable money on his son's education, accompanying him first to Rome for his primary education, and then sending him to Athens to study Greek and philosophy. The poet later expressed his gratitude in a tribute to his father:

If my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if I live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if I am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... As it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. I could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do I feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. Satires 1.6.65–92

After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Horace joined the army, serving under the generalship of Brutus. He fought as a staff officer (tribunus militum) in the Battle of Philippi. Alluding to famous literary models, he later claimed that he saved himself by throwing away his shield and fleeing. When an amnesty was declared for those who had fought against the victorious Octavian (later Augustus), Horace returned to Italy, only to find his estate confiscated; his father likely having died by then. Horace claims that he was reduced to poverty. Nevertheless, he had the means to gain a profitable lifetime appointment as a scriba quaestorius, an official of the Treasury, which allowed him to practice his poetic art.

Horace was a member of a literary circle that included Virgil and Lucius Varius Rufus, who introduced him to Maecenas, friend and confidant of Augustus. Maecenas became his patron and close friend and presented Horace with an estate near Tibur in the Sabine Hills (contemporary Tivoli). He died in Rome a few months after the death of Maecenas at age 57. Upon his death bed, having no heirs, Horace relinquished his farm to his friend, the emperor Augustus, for imperial needs and it stands today as a spot of pilgrimage for his admirers.

Horace is generally considered by classicists to be one of the greatest Latin poets and is known for having coined many Latin phrases that remain in use today, whether in Latin or translation, including carpe diem ("pluck the day" literally, more commonly used in English as "seize the day"), Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country), Nunc est bibendum (Now we must drink), and aurea mediocritas ("golden mean.").

His works, like those of all but the earliest Latin poets, are written in Greek metres, ranging from the hexameters which were relatively easy to adapt into Latin to the more complex measures used in the Odes, such as alcaics and sapphics, which were sometimes a difficult fit for Latin structure and syntax. Alphabetically, his works include:

The works of Horace are:

Odes (or Carmina) (23-13 BC)
Epodes (30 BC)
Satires (35 and 20 BC)
Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (18 BC)
Epistles (20 and 14 BC)
Carmen Saeculare (17 BC).

-From Wikipedia.

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