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FASTI HORATIANI.

U. C. B. C. V. H.

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63

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692

Birth of Horace, on his father's estate,

near Venusia, Dec. 8; vi. Id. Dec. L. Aurelius Cotta, L. Manlius Tor

quatus (Coss.)

(Virgil was five years older, born
U. c. 684.)

L. Julius Cæsar, C. Marcius Figu-
lus (Coss.)

M.Tullius Cicero, C. Antonius (Coss.)
Catilinarian conspiracy; birth of Au-
gustus; Orbilius comes to Rome.

62 3 D. Junius Silanus, L. Licinius
Muræna (Coss.)

693

61

4

694

695

M. Pupius Pisɔ Calpurnianus, M.
Valerius Messala (Coss.)

60 5 L. Afranius, Q. Cæcilius Metellus

Celer (Coss.)

First Triumvirate of Pompey, Cæsar,

and Crassus.

Sueton. in Vit.
Carm. III. xxi. 1.
Epod. xiii. 6.

Sat. II. i. 34, 5.
Carm. iv. xi. 2.

Adventure of Horace when a child (?). Carm. I.iv. 9 20.

59 6 C. Julius Cæsar, M. Calpurnius Bi

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Recall of Cicero. Catullus thirty
years old.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus,
L. M. Philippus (Coss.)
Cæsar in Gaul.

Cn. Pompeius Magnus II., M. Lici-
nius Crassus II. (Coss.)

Virgil, aged sixteen, assumes the toga
virilis. Death of Lucretius the
same day, aged forty-one.
Catullus mentions Pompey's second
Consulate.

L. Domitius Ænobarbus, App. Clau-
dius Pulcher (Coss.)

War of Crassus against the Parthians.

Cn. Domitius Calvinus, M. Valerius
Messala (Coss.)

Donat. Vit. Virgil.

c. 2.

Horace in Rome for his education.
Defeat and death of Crassus.

Sat. 1. vi. 71-6

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Horace takes the toga virilis.

Q. Fufius Calenus, P. Vatinius (Coss.)

C. Julius Cæsar, Dict., M. Antonius,

Mag. Eq.

Horace goes to Athens.

Catullus mentions the Consulate of

Vatinius, C. LII.

C. Julius Cæsar III., M. Æmilius
Lepidus (Coss.)

Battle of Thapsus. Death of Cato.

Cæsar's four triumphs. Reform in
the Calendar.

C. Julius Cæsar; Con. sine collegâ.
Death of Cicero's daughter, Tullia ;
Oratio pro Deiotaro. Q. Cicero at
Athens.

Asinius Pollio, legate in Spain.

C. J. Cæsar V., M. Antonius (Coss.)
P. Cornelius Dolabella, Suff.
Death of Cæsar, aged fifty-six.
Some of Cicero's philosophical works.
C. Vibius Pansa, A. Hirtius (Coss.)
Brutus at Athens. Horace joins his
army as military tribune; battle of
Mutina, both Consuls slain; goes
into Asia (?). Cicero's Philippics,
Death of Cicero. Birth

V. to IX.

of Ovid.

M. Æmilius Lepidus II., L. Muna-
tius Plancus (Coss.)

Battle of Philippi; flight of Horace.

P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus II., L.
Antonius Pietas (Coss.)

In the winter, 712-713, Horace may
have returned to Rome; his estate
near Venusia confiscated.

Ep. 1. ii. 43.

Carm. I. xii. 35-6.

Ep. ad Att. xv. 15.

De Div. ii. 1.

Sat. 1. vi. 48.
Ep. 11. ii. 46.
Carm. III. xiv.

27, 8.

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Virgil had also lost his estate in the
division of lands during the Trium-
virate; so also Tibullus, E. 1. i. 19,
and Propertius IV. i. 129.

Cn. Domitius Calvinus, C. Asinius

Pollio (Coss.)

War of Perugia; Virgil's estate
restored.

Horace in Rome; his friendship with
Virgil and Varius; purchases the
place of Scriba in the Quæstor's
office; affair with Canidia (?).
Epod. v. (?) Epod. XVII. (?)
L. Marcius Censorinus, C. Calvisius
Sabinus (Coss.)

First presentation of Horace to Mæ

cenas by Virgil and Varius ; he must
already have written and imparted
to his friends some of his poetry,
Satires and Epodes, perhaps Odes.
App. Claudius Pulcher, C. Norbanus
Flaccus (Coss.)

Intimacy with Mæcenas, after nine
months had elapsed from his first
introduction.

M. Agrippa, L. Caninius Gallus (Coss.)

Heyne Virg. Vit.
sub an.
Epod. vii. (?)

Epod. xvI. (?)

Sat. 11. vi. 40.

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Journey to Brundusium.

Virgil's Eclogues published.

Sat. I. V.

The

Heyne in Vit.

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30

Georgics begun by advice of Mæ

cenas.

L. Gellius Poplicola, M. Cocceius
Nerva (Coss.)

Defeat of Sex. Pompeius-of Antony
in Parthia.

L. Cornificius, Sex. Pompeius (Coss.)
Death of Sex. Pompeius. Division of
lands, supposed by Bentley to be re-
ferred to Sat. 11. vi. 55, but see Life.

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