Horace describes a welcome-home party for the homecoming of Numida, probably a soldier, from Spain. Horace makes it very clear that there is no shortage of drink, and that love (or sex, at least) is definitely in the offing; he himself, a little incongruously, seems more of an onlooker than a partygoer. The floating couples in the illustration come from a Pompeiian fresco. Hear the poem in the original Latin and follow in English here.
Numida, welcome home!
