. Six thousand years of history. his death ordered that it beburnt, because it had not been polished sufficiently. ButAugustus refused, and it was published as we now knowit. Virgil was shy, silent, and reserved in manner, andwas never married. His sincerity and sweetness oftemper won even the praise of Horace, who is not lavishof praise; and the fastidious purity of his life in an ageof very lax morality gained him the name of supremacy of Virgil in Latin poetry was immediateand almost unquestioned. His works became classicsamong his countrymen and have been studied in theschools in
. Six thousand years of history. his death ordered that it beburnt, because it had not been polished sufficiently. ButAugustus refused, and it was published as we now knowit. Virgil was shy, silent, and reserved in manner, andwas never married. His sincerity and sweetness oftemper won even the praise of Horace, who is not lavishof praise; and the fastidious purity of his life in an ageof very lax morality gained him the name of supremacy of Virgil in Latin poetry was immediateand almost unquestioned. His works became classicsamong his countrymen and have been studied in theschools in all Europe since as models of Latin say that the Georgics are his greatest poems, be-cause of their elegant finish and masterly verse. TheyEneid has passages of equal grace, but is more dramatic power, finished beauty of language, and hisimaginative insight, with his intricate and rich harmonies,have given his work a secure place in literature, where itranks as one of the greatest names. All other Latin. HISTORY OF ROME 259 poetry is estimated by the degree in which it falls shortof his. Horace wooed the lyric muse in his verse. He wasborn at Venusia, in Apulia, and lived from B. C. 65 IHe went to school at Rome and afterward at Athens,but losing his property was forced to write verses, ashe says, for a living. His earliest were chiefly satiresand personal lampoons, but it was probably throughsome of his first lyrics that he became known to Virgil,who introduced him to Maecenas, to whose gift Horaceowed the celebrated farm among the Sabine hills. Hor-ace wras the poet-laureate of his age, and wrote odes toorder in honor of various events. His Epistles aretinguished for grace, ease, good sense, and wit. HisSatires, his earliest publication, which appeared ; »ut35 B. C, are satires more of manners and folliesof vice or impiety. Horace was always a man of theworld, as was shown clearly in his Odes, his grcwork, which appeared in B. C. 19, when he was fort
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