This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...Caesar and Antonins, and was attained after a final crisis by the victory of Caesar. The existence and acceptation among the Bomans of the allegorical view is in itself an indication that the order of the poems in the collection was to them significant. Given this principle, it is easy enough to arrive at the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...Caesar and Antonins, and was attained after a final crisis by the victory of Caesar. The existence and acceptation among the Bomans of the allegorical view is in itself an indication that the order of the poems in the collection was to them significant. Given this principle, it is easy enough to arrive at the perception, that the poem has a date, and is a political allegory; without it, not so: nor is it surprising that among modern readers, who have ignored the order as a means of interpretation, several weighty judgments have pronounced that Quintilian was mistaken and there is no allegory at all. For the disputed epithet Pontica, I believe it is merely meant to show that the ship has come a long way, and was probably suggested to Horace by Catullus iv. 1 Suet. Caligula 8 and 49. Sueto-previous authorities by a somewhat nius supports his opinion against vague and suspicious reference to cer-V. H. 7 After what was said at the beginning of this essay it is perhaps unnecessary to repeat that I do not assume these poems to have been composed at or even near the times to which they have been referred. Indeed in the case of the first two this is perfectly impossible. As Mr Wickham truly says," Augustus did not then occupy the whole horizon of politics6." (Moreover the close resemblance of the first to a passage of Vergil on the same theme7 is to my mind best explained by deliberate imitation on the part of Horace). Like the poems on Murena, these also are, so to speak, ante-dated; they are pictures of the past coloured to suit the known sequel. This I believe to be the character of the Odes in general, so far as they relate to real events; and it is the key to many of their difficulties. The sketch of the decade 40--30 B.c. is precisely such as suits...
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