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Book Condition: Used Fine
Seller: Martin Frost

United Kingdom
About Item: Green calf binding with black title plate, gilt decoration and title on the spine. Gilt 'Cambridge panel' on both boards. Marbled end papers and on all edges. Hardcover. A lovely book from the Miniature Library Series published by W. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Co. Engraved title and frontispiece printed together. Very, very Good condition. Quintus Horatius Flaccus 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words." Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (Satires and Epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (Epodes). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend… Read More
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