Tarentum

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.28 Tarentum

  The southern port whose 'sacred guardian' is Neptune.

• The Odes §3.5 Tarentum

  'Lacedaemonian Tarentum,' the Greek-founded city, image of restful leisure.

• The Epistles §1.7 Tarentum

  A pleasant southern coastal city (modern Taranto); cited as the far point Horace can reach contentedly on a humble mule.

• The Satires §1.6 to Tarentum

  A pleasant southern coastal city (modern Taranto), named as the far point Horace can reach contentedly on a humble mule.