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Horace

In Our Time

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The Poems of the Poets

William: Horace is a lyric poet with an emphasis on the present and now. He says that he was not signing up to any particular philosophical school. But he did call himself a pig from the herd of epicurusa. And for epicurus, ambition is one of the ways in which anxiety enters a human life. You think he set out to make himself quotable, because he'she's been one of the most quotable poets of the ancient world,. hasn't he?

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