Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Reading notes

• The Odes §4.6 Horace

  The bard whose measures the married woman will recall having sung.

• The Epistles §1.14 Horace

  The poet and satirist, author of the corpus; freedman's son, friend of Maecenas, and the speaking voice of the Satires.

• The Epodes §15 Flaccus

  Horace himself, by his family name Flaccus; he warns that 'if there is anything of a man in Flaccus' he will not endure betrayal.

• The Satires §2.1 Flaccus's words

  Flaccus is Horace's own cognomen; he refers to himself by it, conceding that his verse will reach Caesar's ear only at the right moment.

• The Satires §2.6 remember, Quintus

  Quintus is Horace's own first name (Quintus Horatius Flaccus); the clerks address him directly amid the press of business.