E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Leonard Johnson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) HORACE AND HIS INFLUENCE by GRANT SHOWERMAN * * * * * * Our Debt to Greece and Rome Editors George Depue Hadzsits, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania David Moore Robinson, Ph.D., Ll.D. The Johns Hopkins University [Illustration] Contributors to the "Our Debt to Greece and Rome Fund," Whose Generosity Has Made Possible the Library Our Debt to Greece and Rome Philadelphia DR. ASTLEY P.C. ASHHURST WILLIAM L. AUSTIN JOHN C. BELL HENRY H. BONNELL JASPER YEATES BRINTON GEORGE BURNHAM, JR. JOHN CADWALADER MISS CLARA COMEGYS MISS MARY E. CONVERSE ARTHUR G. DICKSON WILLIAM M. ELKINS H.H. FURNESS, JR. WILLIAM P. GEST JOHN GRIBBEL SAMUEL F. HOUSTON CHARLES EDWARD INGERSOLL JOHN STORY JENKS ALBA B. JOHNSON MISS NINA LEA HORATIO G. LLOYD GEORGE MCFADDEN MRS. JOHN MARKOE JULES E. MASTBAUM J. VAUGHAN MERRICK EFFINGHAM B. MORRIS WILLIAM R. MURPHY JOHN S. NEWBOLD S. DAVIS PAGE (memorial) OWEN J. ROBERTS JOSEPH G. ROSENGARTEN WILLIAM C. SPROUL JOHN B. STETSON, JR. DR. J. WILLIAM WHITE (memorial) GEORGE D. WIDENER MRS. JAMES D. WINSOR OWEN WISTER The Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Liberal Studies. Boston ORIC BATES (memorial) FREDERICK P. FISH WILLIAM AMORY GARDNER JOSEPH CLARK HOPPIN Chicago HERBERT W. WOLFF Cincinnati CHARLES PHELPS TAFT Cleveland SAMUEL MATHER Detroit JOHN W. ANDERSON DEXTER M. FERRY, JR. Doylestown, Pennsylvania "A LOVER OF GREECE AND ROME" New York JOHN JAY CHAPMAN WILLARD V. KING THOMAS W. LAMONT DWIGHT W. MORROW MRS. D.W. MORROW _Senatori Societatis Philosophiae_, [Greek: PhBK], _gratias maximas agimus_ ELIHU ROOT MORTIMER L. SCHIFF WILLIAM SLOANE GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM And one contributor, who has asked to have his name withheld: _Maecenas atavis edite regibus,_ _O et praesidium et dulce decus meum._ Washington The Greek Embassy at Washington, for the Greek Government. * * * * * * HORACE AND HIS INFLUENCE by GRANT SHOWERMAN Professor of Classics The University of Wisconsin George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd. London Calcutta Sydney The Plimpton Press Norwood Massachusetts 1922 To HOWARD LESLIE SMITH LOVER OF LETTERS SABINE HILLS O_n Sabine hills when melt the snows_, S_till level-full His river flows_; E_ach April now His valley fills_ W_ith cyclamen and daffodils_; A_nd summers wither with the rose_. S_wift-waning moons the cycle close_: B_irth,--toil,--mirth,--death; life onward goes_ T_hrough harvest heat or winter chills_ O_n Sabine hills_.