Liber

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.12 Liber

  Bacchus, named among the great gods Horace will not pass over.

• The Odes §1.16 Liber

  Bacchus, whose frenzy is named with Cybele's as a type of madness less than wrath.

• The Odes §1.18 Liber

  Bacchus, whose 'moderate gifts' must not be overstepped.

• The Odes §1.32 Liber

  Bacchus, among the subjects Alcaeus sang amid arms and shipwreck.

• The Odes §2.19 Liber

  Bacchus, invoked to 'spare' the poet possessed by his power.

• The Odes §3.3 father Bacchus

  Borne to heaven by his tigers, another mortal-born god of the catalogue.

• The Odes §3.8 Liber

  Bacchus, to whom Horace vowed feasts and a white goat after escaping the falling tree.

• The Odes §3.21 Lyaeus

  Bacchus the 'looser,' through whom wine 'lays bare the cares of the wise.'

• The Odes §3.21 Liber

  With Venus and the Graces, drawing on the feast till dawn.

• The Odes §3.25 Lenaeus

  An epithet of Bacchus ('of the winepress'); 'sweet is the danger' to follow him.

• The Odes §4.8 Liber

  Bacchus, 'his temples adorned with green vine-shoot,' who 'brings vows to good ends.'

• The Odes §4.15 Liber

  'Merry Liber,' amid whose gifts the family sings the old songs of heroes.

• The Satires §1.4 truthful Bacchus

  Liber, the Italian wine-god identified with Bacchus; wine is 'truthful' because it loosens the tongue and opens the heart's secrets — in vino veritas.