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MSN Encarta - Horace |
 | | Horace (65-8 bc), Roman lyric poet and satirist, whose works are masterpieces of Latin literature of the Golden Age. |
 | | Horace was born Quintus Horatius Flaccus in December 65 bc, the son of a freedman, in Venusia (now Venosa, Italy), and educated in Rome and subsequently in Athens, where he studied Greek philosophy and poetry at the Academy. |
 | | The Epodes, also issued in 30 bc, were apparently written earlier, for they are an impassioned plea for an end to the civil discord, an end that came with Octavian's victory over Antony at Actium in 31 bc. |
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