1

Publication of First Book of Satires.

L. Scribonius Libo, M. Antonius II.
(Coss.)

Horace receives the Sabine estate

from Mæcenas.

32 C. Cæsar II., L. Volcatius Tullus
(Coss.)

33

Foundation of the Octavian Library.
The Edileship of Agrippa, alluded to
Sat. 11. iii. 195.

Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cn. So-
sius (Coss.)

The latter end of this year the earliest
possible date for the publication of
Sat. Book II.

C. Cæsar III., M. Valerius Messala
Corvinus (Coss.)

Battle of Actium, Sept. 2.

Epode 1., before the beginning of the
war; Epode 1x., after the battle.

C. Cæsar IV., M. Licinius Crassus
(Coss.)

Death of Antony and of Cleopatra.
Publication of Satires, Book II., more

probable.

Cornelius Gallus, the poet, and friend

of Virgil, præfect of Egypt.

36 C. Cæsar V., Sex. Appuleius (Coss.)

37

38

Temple of Janus closed.

Publication of the Epodes of Horace :

Franke assigns this date to Carm. I.ii.
C. Cæsar VI., M. Agrippa II. (Coss.)
C.CæsarVII., M. Agrippa III.(Coss.)
Octavius Cæsar takes the name of
Augustus, XVI. Cal. Feb.; accepts
the empire for ten years.

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41

24

23 4.2

Death of Cornelius Gallus.

Propertius (according to Mr. Fynes
Clinton) twenty-five years old.

C. Cæsar Augustus IX., M. Junius
Silanus (Coss.)

Augustus wages war against the Can

tabrians.

Carm. I. vi. 2.

Dion. LIII. 25.

Virgil

Carm. II. iv. 23.
Heyne in Vit.

Horace completes his fortieth year.
Temple of Janus closed.

finished his Georgics.

C. Cæsar Augustus X., C. Norbanus
Flaccus (Coss.)

Augustus returns from the conquest

of Cantabria.

Expedition of Elius Gallus into

Arabia.

Virgil commences the Æneid.

Death of Quintilius Varus.

C. Cæsar Augustus (L. Sestius, Suf-
fectus, the Sestius of Carm. 1. iv.),
A. Terentius Varro Murena (Coss.)
Tribunitian power voted to Augustus
for life.

Death of Marcellus. Tiridates in
Rome, and Embassy from Parthia.
Demand of restitution of the
standards of Crassus. Publication
of Odes, according to Franke,
Fasti Horatiani.

Carm. III. xiv. 2.
Ep. 1. xviii. 55, 6.

Carm. I. xxix. 2.

Carm. I. xxiv.
Carm. I. iv.

Virg. Æneid. vi. 861,7. Propert. iii. 18. Dion. LIII. 30, 31, 33.

I WRITE from Licenza, hard by the site

of Horace's Sabine Farm, where I have spent the last week,

"Excepto quod non simul esses, cætera lætus."

I am lodged in the house of the present possessor of the said Farm, and from my window look out on the wooded crests of the amanus Lucretilis, on the Ustica cubans, and the reducta vallis at their feet. The spot is still, as in the poet's time, the abode of rural simplicity--a calm retreat from the heat, the dust, the noise of "royal Rome." The mountain breezes, too so cool and refreshing after the furnace-blasts of the Campagna

"Incolumem tibi me præstant Septembribus horis."

You will be anxious to hear some description of my pil