Rome

Reading notes

• The Secular Hymn §5-8 seven hills

  The seven hills of Rome; 'the gods to whom the seven hills are dear' is the city itself, for whose continuance the hymn prays.

• The Odes §3.29 Rome

  'The smoke and wealth and din of prosperous Rome' Maecenas should cease to marvel at.

• The Odes §4.3 Rome

  'First of cities,' whose people set Horace among the loved choirs of bards.

• The Odes §4.14 Rome

  'Mistress Rome,' guarded by the present Augustus.

• The Epistles §1.7 Rome

  The capital of the Roman world and Horace's home; the starting point of the journey to Brundisium.

• The Epodes §7 this City

  Rome, 'the City,' here imagined perishing by its own hand in civil war.

• The Satires §1.5 mighty Rome

  The capital of the Roman world and Horace's home; the starting point of the journey to Brundisium and the backdrop of most of the Satires.