CHAPTER VII. HORACE'S POEMS TO HIS FRIENDS.--HIS PRAISES OF
CONTENTMENT

CHAPTER VIII. PREVAILING BELIEF IN ASTROLOGY.--HORACE'S VIEWS OF A
HEREAFTER.--RELATIONS WITH MAECENAS--BELIEF IN THE
PERMANENCE OF HIS OWN FAME

CHAPTER IX. HORACE'S RELATIONS WITH AUGUSTUS--HIS LOVE OF
INDEPENDENCE

CHAPTER X. DELICACY OF HORACE'S HEALTH.-HIS CHEERFULNESS--LOVE OF
BOOKS.--HIS PHILOSOPHY PRACTICAL.--EPISTLE TO AUGUSTUS.
--DEATH



PREFACE.

No writer of antiquity has taken a stronger hold upon the modern mind
than Horace. The causes of this are manifold, but three may be
especially noted: his broad human sympathies, his vigorous common-
sense, and his consummate mastery of expression. The mind must be
either singularly barren or singularly cold to which Horace does not
speak. The scholar, the statesman, the soldier, the man of the world,
the town-bred man, the lover of the country, the thoughtful and the
careless, he who reads much, and he who reads little, all find in his
pages more or less to amuse their fancy, to touch their feelings, to
quicken their observation, to nerve their convictions, to put into
happy phrase the deductions of their experience. His poetical