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Carpe diem!" Roman poet Horace: Odes and satire still resonate.
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Life Journey
Horace was born in Venusia to a freedman father.
Horace father brought him to Rome for education.
Horace traveled to Athens to study philosophy.
Horace joined Brutus republican forces as a military tribune.
Horace fought on the losing side at Philippi.
Horace returned to Rome.
Horace purchased a position as a scriba quaestorius.
Virgil and Varius introduced Horace to Maecenas.
Horace published his first collection of Satires.
Maecenas gave Horace a country estate.
Horace published his Epodes and second book of Satires.
Horace published his masterwork, three books of Odes.
Augustus commissioned Horace to write the hymn for the Secular Games.
Horace published a fourth book of Odes.
Horace died just weeks after his patron Maecenas.