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Horace

c. 65 BCE–c. 8 BCE · Rome

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65 - 8 BCE) was one of the foremost Latin poets of the age of Augustus. The son of a freed slave, he rose to enjoy the patronage of Maecenas and the emperor's circle, and wrote in a range of forms - satires, verse epistles, and especially the "Odes," lyric poems on love, friendship, wine, and the passing of time. His polished craftsmanship and memorable phrases (such as "seize the day") made him a model for poets for many centuries afterward.

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About Rome

Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.

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