John Conington renders into English couplets Horace’s conversational poems: the satires on greed, ambition and a dreadful dinner party, the journey to Brundisium, the bore who will not leave him alone, the verse letters to friends and to Maecenas, and the Ars Poetica with its advice to poets.
A Victorian translation that keeps Horace’s ease and wit. Download the free EPUB.