As a compliment to the lovely pair, Horace promises never to return to the scurrilous tone of some of his earlier poetry.
Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here.
See the illustrated blog post here.
In a charming poem tinged with darker themes and written in elegant Alcaic metre, Horace reflects on the destructive power of anger, and promises a lovely mother and her even lovelier daughter that he will never return to writing iambics – a metre famed among the Greeks and Romans for personal attacks and lampoons. In the illustration by the Japanese woodblock print designer Utamaro, a lovely mother teaches her even lovelier daughter the art of calligraphy.
Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here.
