Carmina. Liber 4. English & Latin

Abstract

This text seeks to explore Book IV of Horace's Odes not as isolated works of adulatory verse, but as a collection of subliminal vignettes on Roman society in the early days of the Principate. That they were written as individual items over a period of time, ranging from 13 BC. to 8 BC., is not disputed. That they were really intended by Horace as a complete entity in their own right is the primary argument of this work and is supported by a full translation, commentary and analysis of the Latin text in which the order of the odes has been reconstituted After downloading this text, click on the file "Contents.html" to begin at the Contents page of the text. Please note that the file must be extracted to a local folder on your computer to enable the HTML linkage English translations are newly done by the editor Text also available from original website: http://www.reshistoriaeantiqua.co.uk