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For Horace, the party life at Rome is worth nothing compared to the peace and order of life on his Sabine farm.

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Signing off having completed his first book of Odes, Horace enjoys a well-earned drink and celebrates the superiority of such simple Roman pleasures over luxurious Eastern fashions.

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Horace reflects on the predicament of a beautiful courtesan who is becoming an object of indifference, or even scorn, as she ages and loses her looks. How far he sympathises, and how far he is pleased at the change, is hard to say.

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Horace combines praise of Augustus with a tribute to one of his idols: the Greek poet Pindar.

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Horace’s instinctive response to thunder from a clear sky prompts him to reconsider where he stands between Epicurean philosophy and the Gods of Olympus.

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