Identifier: historyofallnati05wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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rd he lived in Rome and Naples. His Bucolics, which he pub-lished between b.c. 41 and 89, after the pattern of the Idylls of Theo-critus, express his thankful homage to his friends. The Georgics,B.c. 37-30, four books on agriculture, he dedicated to Maecenas. Atthe request of Augustus he began, in B.C. 29, a great epic poem, ofwhich the hero should be the legendary ancestor of the Romans and ofthe Julian house, the Trojan Aeneas. Virgil died September 22, B.c.19, at Brundisium. The Aeneid, to which he could not put thefinal touches, was regarded by the Romans, for brilliancy and dignityof language, and for elegance of composition, as a masterpiece. Apoet of a different kind was Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), whowas born in Venusia, December 8, b.c. 65, the son of a freedman. Hereceived an excellent education, finished in the philosophical schools ofAthens ; and he fought as tribune under Marcus Brutus. Returningto Rome after the overthrow at Philippi, he secured a clerkship in the
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43 44 THE PBINCIPATE OF AUGUSTUS. quaestors office, and began to make use of his poetical talent. Hisfriends introduced him, in B.c. 39, to Maecenas, who became his patronand friend. In b.c. 34 he received from liim an estate in the Sabinecountry, north of Tibur, which gave him independence. He died No-vember 27, B.c. 8, not long after the death of Maecenas. For Horacethe day of Philippi was a turning-point. The ideals of his youth weregone, and nothing remained for him but resignation. He reached theintelligent conviction that the principate was an unavoidable necessityand indeed a blessing for the Romans; and with good conscience hecould recommend to his contemporaries, in support of Augustus, thevirtues of simplicity and contentment, and the putting away of restlessambition and daring plans. His view of the world would appear veryegotistic, were it not tempered with tact and amiability. Moderationand freedom from stormy passion, — to be disturbed by nothing, to becontent with wha

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