LPH: Lesson - Reading Horace in Latin

Image: a painting of the Roman poet Horace working at a writing deskReading Horace in Latin

Now that you have read a selection of Horace's Odes in English, it's time to explore some selected poems in Latin. Remember, the goal here is to take the context you learned by reading the entire text and applying that to the Latin to make it more readable. Look out for specific poetic devices as you read as well. Painting of Horace by Giacomo Di Chirico, 1871.

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