. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. reek influences that their natural Italiangenius for the theatre was stifled under the load of a classicalconvention. Certainly Horace had the gift, and in such passagesas the dramatic duologue (Ode ix. of Book III.) Doneegratuseram tibi, or the Epode of the witches (v.) Ai, o deorunt, or thestill more famous Epistle about the bore, he exhibits himself,like Browning, as a dramatist gone astray. Regarded fromthe purely lyrical point of view, the Century Hymn, which hewrote to order as Romes laureate in succession to Verg
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. reek influences that their natural Italiangenius for the theatre was stifled under the load of a classicalconvention. Certainly Horace had the gift, and in such passagesas the dramatic duologue (Ode ix. of Book III.) Doneegratuseram tibi, or the Epode of the witches (v.) Ai, o deorunt, or thestill more famous Epistle about the bore, he exhibits himself,like Browning, as a dramatist gone astray. Regarded fromthe purely lyrical point of view, the Century Hymn, which hewrote to order as Romes laureate in succession to Vergil, isperhaps his greatest achievement. The Secular Games of17 were intended to bring visibly before mens eyes theglories of the new monarchy and incidentally to carry in theirtrain the salutary but unpopular measures of the Julian moralreform. So the choir of noble youths and maidens were taughtto sing in their prayer to Diann: diua, producas subolem patrumqueprosperes decreta super iugandisieminis prolisque nouse feracilege marita,* ♦ Carmen Secutare, Plate 63. BAALBEK : THE CIRCULAR TEMPLE(Seep. 282) [p. 2 38 AUGUSTAN ROME where the goddess is besought to increase the population ofRome and favour the senates decrees about marriage. Thefourth book of the Odes was added after a long interval at thedirect request of Augustus. It is intended to bring theachievements of Augustus and his family, particularly thetriumphs of Tiberius and Drusus, into favourable comparisonwith the heroic stories of republican history. It is mostmelancholy to observe that Maecenas, to whom Horace wasgenuinely attached and whose name constantly occurs in hisearlier writings, here drops out of the poets verse because hehad fallen out of Caesars favour. Although Horace is in his Odes as classical and conventionalas all the Roman writers of his age, his Satires and Epistlesare more intimate than any other Latin work of the great period. \In them we get real glimpses of life at Rome, or o
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