after the old spring near Venusia, you can hardly deny; if you will but turn to a beautiful part of the third Eneid."

349. 351. Procedo, et parvam Trojam, simulataque magnis

Pergama, et arentem Xanthi cognomine rivum

Agnosco, Scaæque amplector limina Porta.

65

HORACE born, 8 Dec. near Venusia, in the
Consulship of Manlius Torquatus

His adventure when a child

Authorities and allusions.

2 S. 1. 34, 5.

Ep. XIII. 6 3 C. XXI. 1.

4 C. IX. 2.

3 C. IV. 9-20.

Is carried by his father to Rome for education. 1 S. vi. 71-6.

His father dies about this time.

Battle of Pharsalia.

47 18

He goes, as to an University, to Athens...

2 E. 11. 43.

46 19

Cato, at Utica, kills himself

He takes the Toga Virilis.

1 C. XII. 35, 6.

Horace leaves Athens, to join the standard of 1 S. vi. 48.
Brutus, as military tribune

...

calidus juventâ | Consule Planco shares in the defeat at Philippi, and in the confiscation that followed

...

His friend Pompeius Varus betakes himself to
Sextus Pompeius, then master of Sicily
In the winter 42 | 41 he returns to Rome, having
been nearly shipwrecked off Cape Palinurus 3 C. iv. 28.
becomes acquainted with Virgil and Varius;
is by them introduced to Mæcenas ...................
obtains his patronage, and is admitted to his
friendship..........

The first Class of his Writings.

The first book of Satires.

Years of Horace... XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, R. B.

=25, 26, 27, Fast. Hell.

Authorities

and

allusions.

38 27

36

333

B. c. [37, 36,] 35, 34, 33.
In the spring, Horace enjoys the journey to

Brundusium.

29 Is enriched by Mecenas with the Sabine estate
War renewed with Sextus Pompeius, (dux
Neptunius,) his defeat and flight afterwards
alluded to........

1 S. v.
2 S. VI.

...... Ep. IX. 7-10.

Division of lands, towards the close of the
Sicilian war; (in the winter 36 | 35.)......
The Edileship of Agrippa.....

The book of Epodes.

Years of Horace .........XXXIV, XXXV. R. B.

2 S. vi. 55, 6.
2 S. III. 185, 6.

B. C. 32, 31.

38

33

The war impending betwixt Cæsar and
Antony

34 Horace desires to accompany Maecenas to the

Ep. vii.

Ep. 1.

war: the battle of Actium, Sept. 2. ......... On the first news of the victory he addresses Mæcenas.....

Ep. IX.

In this year probably Horace rents or buys
the Cottage and Garden at Tivoli.

The second Class of his Writings.

The first book of Odes.

Years of Horace...XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII. R. B.

Authorities

and allusions.

35 Death of Antony and Cleopatra

36

End of the civil wars: the Temple of Janus
shut.

1 C. XXXVII.

The deliberation about restoring the republic,
and that allegory, Onavis referent...composed 1 C. xiv.
On the Ides of January (13th) the appellation

of Augustus conferred on Cæsar: in the
following night a storm and inundation. (vid.
Append. iv.) .......

.... 1 C. II.

Augustus goes into Spain: he appears also to
have meditated an expedition to Britain... 1 C. xxxv. 30.

25 40 After the Cantabrian war, the Temple of
Janus shut a second time by Augustus......

24 41

Augustus returns from the war in Spain

An Embassy from Parthia: allusion supposed
to it..............

4 C. xv. 8, 9.

3 C. XIV. & VIII.

21, 2.

1 E. xvIII. 55, 6.

3 C. v. I. 4.

M. Lollius, the Elder, Consul: Horace com- 4 C. IX. 1 E. xx. 27, 8. 39.

pletes his 44th year ...

The third Class of Horace's Writings.

The first book of Epistles.

Years of Horace............XLVI, XLVII.

R. B.

= 45, 46.

F. H.

Authorities
and
allusions.

B.C. [22, 21,] 20, 19, [18.]

The Carmen Sæculare, and the fourth

book of Odes.

Years of Horace............XLIX, L, LI. R. B.

= 48, 49, 50. F. H.

B.C. [18] 17, 16, 15.

The Roman Eagles actually restored from 1 E. XVIII. 56, 7.

Parthia

The Armenians subdued,

and the Cantabri finally so.

Cantaber Agrippa, Claudi virtute Neronis
Armenius cecidit........

The Epistles III, VIII, IX. written while Tiberius
is in the East, and not later than this year.
The death of Virgil.

Ludi Sæculares, for the fifth time, celebrated.
In this year, the Carmen Sæculare, and that
prelude to it 4 C. vi. Dive, quem proles...

written.

Horace marks his 50th year (as 2 C. iv. 23,.4.
his 40th). ....

Augustus remains in Gaul; and reduces the

Sicambri.

and 2 E. 1. 256.

4 C. xv. 6-8.

1 E. XII. 26.

4 C. 1. 6.

His triumphal return, anticipated by Horace, 4 C. II. 33-44. did not take place till B. c. 13.

Tiberius (Major Neronum) and Drusus sub- 4 C. IV. and XIV.

due the Rhæti and the Vindelici.

8--14.