March, 1938

THE WORKS OF HORACE

"Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense,

Will, like a friend, familiarly convey

The truest notions in the easiest way.

He who, supreme in judgment as in wit,
Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ,
Yet judg'd with coolness, tho' he sang with fire;
His Precepts teach but what his works inspire."

-POPE.

THE

WORKS OF HORACE

Quintus Horatius Flaccus

· TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE

WITH

A LIFE AND NOTES

BY

SIR THEODORE MARTIN, K.C.B.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLXXXI

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