E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, David Garcia, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 25563-h.htm or 25563-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/5/6/25563/25563-h/25563-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/5/6/25563/25563-h.zip) HORACE [Illustration: [_Bib. Nat., Paris._ HORACE. From a bronze medallion of the period of Constantine.] Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers HORACE by REV. W. TUCKWELL, M.A. Author of "Chaucer," Etc. [Illustration] London George Bell & Sons 1905 Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co. Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Struggle 9 Success 19 Satires and Epistles 30 Odes and Epodes 51 Swan-Song 74 The Wines of Horace 82 Chronology 85 Index 87 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO FACE PAGE Horace, from a Bronze Medallion _Frontispiece_ Brutus 12 Maecenas 16 The Site of Horace's Villa 22 The Roman Forum 26 Augustus 46 Virgil 64 The Forum Restored, as in A.D. 80 74 THE LIFE OF HORACE STRUGGLE