The Complete Odes and Epodes Page 24
by Horace
16. Translations by Sir Thomas Hawkins (1631), Sir Richard Fanshawe (1632). Thomas Creech (1684), and Philip Francis (1743), which Dr Johnson thought the best, compared by Niall Rudd in Lines of Enquiry, pp. 189 ff.
17. E. Stemplinger, quoted by Wilkinson, p. 172.
18. From Byron’s Note 40 to Stanza lxxv.
1. Epistles II. 1.1.ff.
2. Epistles I.4.15, 1.20.24. ‘Satires’ is used loosely to cover all Horace’s hexameters.
3. A gap in the MSS seems likely, as there is no mention of Horace’s genuine works.
4. 8 December 65 B.C.
5. 27 November 8 B.C.
