Vengeance in Horace Odes 1.2

Words related to the verb ulciscor (pf. ppl. ultus) appear three times in Odes 1.2, the poem in which Horace makes the interesting transition, during

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Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribusque comae…

Color me excited. I just leard that the topic of our special seminar with Michael Putnam next Saturday (part of the annual Michels lecture events) is

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Aurea Mediocritas and Horace Odes 2.10.1-8

Horace Odes 2.10 is appropriately given the English title ‘The Golden Mean’ in Garrison’s edition of the Epodes and Odes. The famous Latin phrase aure

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