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  • Horace, Epistles 2.2.89

  • Edward H. Bispham, Don P. Fowler
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 40 / Issue 1 / May 1990
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. 280-283
    Print publication:
    May 1990

  • At Epistles 2.2.87–9 Horace introduces an argument against writing poetry based on the unpleasant mutual admiration required in poetic society with an anecdote about an orator and a jurisconsult:

    †frater erat Romae† consulti rhetor, ut alter

    alterius sermone meros audiret honores,

    Gracchus ut hic illi, foret huic ut Mucius ille.