During my saunters, I delight to rest my mind with the recitation of the Odes and Epodes of my poetick and pre-Christian namesake.
Even Beau Ripple grew tired of reading the Epodes of Horace and the Letters of Tully to his grey Angora cat.
Horace was now thirty-five years old: the Epodeshad taught him his power over lyric verse.
In his remaining Epodes we may trace the germ of his later written Odes.
Between the latest of the Satires and the earliest of the Epistles, we have to reckon an interval of something like ten years, during which had been published the Epodes and the majority of the Odes.
The Epodes are amongst his earliest publications, and bear signs of a 'prentice hand.
Accordingly we find the first ten of these epodes composed in alternate verses of iambic trimeter and iambic dimeter, thus:-- "At o Deorum quicquid in coelo regit Terras et humanum genus.
In the seven remaining epodes Horace has diversified the measures, while retaining the general character of the distich.
He who says that Pindar is inimitable, is himself inimitable in his odes; but the contention betwixt these two great masters is for the prize of satire, in which controversy all the odes and epodes of Horace are to stand excluded.
And Horace seems to have purged himself from those splenetic reflections in those odes and epodes before he undertook the noble work of satires, which were properly so called.
To what periods of the life of Horace would you refer the composition of the Book of Epodes and the Books of Satires and Epistles?
Probably epodes and satires were the first fruits of his pen, though some scholars ascribe certain of the Odes (e.
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