Horace

Also known as: Horatius, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the Poet
Dates: 65–8 BC
Role: Roman lyric poet

Roman lyric poet. Quoted as "the Poet" on blending the useful with the sweet.

Works

Ars Poetica

Preliminaries

TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI. — Quoted as "the Poet": "He wins all votes who blends the useful with the sweet."
"He wins all votes who blends the useful with the sweet."

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Jerome quotes him: "What belongs to physicians, physicians promise; craftsmen handle the work of craftsmen" and "We write poems, learned and unlearned alike, without distinction"
"What belongs to physicians, physicians promise; craftsmen handle the work of craftsmen."
II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — David is compared to Horace
"our Horace too, Catullus and Serenus"

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — Quoted: "He who knows not how to use a little will serve forever"
"Thus Horace takes "eternal" when he says:"