Questions tagged [horatius]
For questions about Quintus Horatius Flaccus or Horace (65–27 BC) and his work.
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Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri
This is a famous sentence from Horace's Epistle, if I can believe Wikipedia. It's first person speech in a letter.
I'm trying to understand the grammar and produce a translation that is a bit more ...
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Quantity of second i in "mihi" in Horace's Satires ii.7.116?
In my hardback Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (1916), in section 379 and again in section 397 in the phrase "unde mihi lapidem", the word mihi is written as mihī, with a macron ...
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What did Horace say about combining Latin and Greek roots?
In English, it's common to make technical terms by combining Latin and Greek morphemes, like "television" (as opposed to "telescopy" or "remotovision"). It seems the ...
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Use of the perfect to indicate "whenever I do someting"
In the following sentence I do understand the reason the perfect is used for veni:
rure meo possum quidvis perferre patique; ad mare cum veni, generosum et lene requiro ("In my country estate I ...
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What is the performance context of Horace's Epode 1 and how can we explain the poet's handling of Time?
Was the performance context a symposium with Maecenas, the addressee present, and could the poem be re-purposed for another occasion?
Why does the poet use an incident in the Past and refer to it as ...
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Horace quotes a Greek proverb in Ars Poetica, what does it mean?
In Ars Poetica Horace writes:
quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
I get the meaning of the Latin, though admittedly by looking at a translation ...
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What was "ultra terminum" translated to from Horace's poem?
The translation on Perseus for this poem by Horace, gives the following for the third verse:
namque me silva lupus in Sabina,
dum meam canto Lalagen et ultra
terminum curis vagor expeditis,
fugit ...
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What era of Latin did Horace write in?
What era of Latin did Horace write in? Did he write in the era of Old Latin, Classical Latin, or Vulgar Latin? I have tried to look this up and all I could find was that Horace was a Latin lyric poet ...
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Understanding a sacrifice in Horace's carmen 1.5
In Carmina 1, poem 5, Horace writes about an untrustworthy and seducing lady.
He ends the poem in:
(...) Me tabula sacer
votiva paries indicat uvida
suspendisse potenti
vestimenta maris deo.
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Origin of "seize the day" as a translation of Horace's carpe diem
Even many people who have never studied Latin know the phrase carpe diem (from Horace's Odes 1.11), and can tell you that it means "seize the day". But "seize" is not a very close translation of ...
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On the word order of "Sapere aude"
In putting together his dictum, Horace, as a native speaker of Latin, perhaps instinctively chose to put first the word "sapere," and then the word "aude," even if, strictly grammatically speaking, "...
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"Desinat in piscem" in Horace's Ars Poetica: morphology or looks or what exactly?
This is about the core meaning of desinat in piscem as in:
Humano capiti ceruicem pictor equinam
iungere si uelit et uarias inducere plumas
undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum
desinat ...
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"Purissimum penem" in Suetonius's Life of Horace
Suetonius, in his Vita Horati, reports that the emperor Augustus jokingly referred to Horace as a purissimus penis:
Praeterea saepe eum inter alios iocos purissimum penem et homuncionem lepidissimum ...
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Who are Maecenas' atavi?
The first verse of the first ode in the first book of odes by Horatius is
Maecenas atavis edite regibus
You Maecenas, who descend from great-great-great-grandfathers that were kings
Who are these ...
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Why would avoiding olive oil be a negative thing?
In Horace's Odes 1.8, Horace criticizes his ex's new boyfriend by saying, among other things, that:
...olivum sanguine viperino cautius vitat...
which, roughly, means
He avoids olive oil more ...
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