Eclogae Ex Q. Horatii Flacci Poematibus (Classic Reprint)

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The poet himself was therefore freeborn (ingenious) and this fact, considering the great number of freedmen who lived at Rome, and rese to wealth and influence, was of itself something to be proud of (compare Sat. I. 6, Horace acknowledges his humble birth; but his educatiori, he says, was equal to that of one destined for the highest position in society, although his father would have been satisfied if his son had followed the same calling as himself - namely, that of a coactor (sat. 1. 6, 86) or, as Suetonius in Horace's life more fully says, exactionum coactor that is, an agent of the argentarii who, for a certain per centage or commission, collected from purchasers at auctions the money due for what they had bought. The father, however, was besides the possessor of a small estate near Venusia.

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