The Works of Horace

Horace

Start with Epistles I.4, addressed to Albius Tibullus. The ending describes a well-kept, self-mocking literary speaker as a hog of Epicurus’ herd; the anthology instead cites Satires ii.4,15 and uses different English. Then read the mountains-and-mouse warning in the Art of Poetry: it concerns an inflated literary opening that delivers little. Smart’s prose, revised by Buckley, says ridiculous mouse where the anthology says absurd mouse. Neither comparison silently corrects the archive or proves which translation its compiler used.

Who it suits

Readers seeking the speaker, argument and English translation around familiar Roman anthology excerpts.

Reading experience

Moderate; classical names, historical assumptions and older translated prose. The Cicero edition also supplies Latin. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.

The edition

Edition

Handy Literal Translations; new edition revised by Theodore Alois Buckley; printing year and publisher unspecified

Language

English

Translator

Christopher Smart; revised by Theodore Alois Buckley

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