Manlius Torquatus

Reading notes

• The Odes §4.7 Torquatus

  The addressee: neither birth, eloquence, nor piety will restore him once dead.

• The Epistles §1.5 Torquatus

  Consul of 65 BC, the year of Horace's birth; 'wine of my Torquatus' consulship' is wine of the poet's own vintage-year.

• The Epodes §13 Torquatus

  Manlius Torquatus, consul in 65 BC, the year of Horace's birth; 'wine of Torquatus' consulship' is wine of the poet's own birth-year.