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Horace, Epistles 2.2.89

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Edward H. Bispham  and
Don P. Fowler
Edward H. Bispham
Affiliation:
Jesus College, Oxford
Don P. Fowler
Affiliation:
Jesus College, Oxford
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Extract

At Epistles 2.2.87–9 Horace introduces an argument against writing poetry based on the unpleasant mutual admiration required in poetic society with an anecdote about an orator and a jurisconsult:

†frater erat Romae† consulti rhetor, ut alter

alterius sermone meros audiret honores,

Gracchus ut hic illi, foret huic ut Mucius ille.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , May 1990 , pp. 280 - 283
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1990

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1 Quoted from the third edition (Berlin, 1869).

2 Ed. Berlin, 1883.

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14 We are most grateful for comments and corrections to Dr R. O. A, M. Lyne and Professor R. G. M. Nisbet.