Tibur

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.7 Tibur

  The hill-town (modern Tivoli) east of Rome, Plancus' home and Horace's favorite retreat.

• The Odes §1.18 Tibur

  The hill-town whose 'mild soil' is good for the vine.

• The Odes §2.6 Tibur

  The hill-town Horace hopes will be 'the seat of my old age.'

• The Odes §3.4 Tibur

  Sloping Tivoli, a favored retreat under the Muses' protection.

• The Odes §3.29 Tibur

  'Watered Tibur,' part of the rich view Maecenas should stop gazing at.

• The Odes §4.2 Tibur

  About its well-watered banks the bee-poet fashions his slight songs.

• The Odes §4.3 Tibur

  Its waters and groves 'fashion him noble in Aeolian song.'

• The Epistles §1.7 Tibur

  A fashionable hill town near Rome (modern Tivoli); the Tibur road is the setting for the pompous Tillius's slave-borne procession.

• The Satires §1.6 the Tibur road

  The road to Tibur (modern Tivoli), a chic hill town near Rome; the setting for the pompous Tullius's parade of slaves.