Today’s new poem is Horace’s ode celebrating the defeat of Cleopatra. See the blog post here featuring Waterhouse’s portrait of the lady or go straight to the poem here.
Why is “now the time for drinking to be done and the ground to be struck with free foot?” Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, has defeated Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium! Hear Horace’s poem on the subject in Latin and follow it in English translation here.
