The Sabines

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.9 Sabine jar

  A jar of the modest Sabine wine of Horace's own country.

• The Odes §1.20 Sabine

  The cheap wine of Horace's Sabine country, offered humbly to Maecenas.

• The Odes §1.22 Sabine wood

  The woods of Horace's Sabine farm, where the wolf fled from him unarmed.

• The Odes §2.18 one Sabine farm

  Horace's single Sabine estate, with which he is 'content enough.'

• The Odes §3.1 Sabine

  Horace's beloved Sabine farm, the modest estate he will not trade for burdensome riches.

• The Odes §3.6 Sabine

  The 'Sabine mattocks' of the stern old peasant virtue Horace contrasts with present decay.

• The Epistles §1.7 Sabine

  An Italic people northeast of Rome, emblem of old-fashioned frugality and stern virtue.