Use this site to learn more about Horace's Villa near Licenza (Rome), Italy and about the new excavations being undertaken there under the direction of Prof. Bernard Frischer and with the sponsorship of the Vincenzo Romagnoli Group, the American Academy in Rome, and the Soprintendenza Archeologica per il Lazio.

Translations by permission of the Harvard University Press Odes 1.17 Latin English 5 10 15 20 25 Velox amoenum saepe Lucretilem mutat Lycaeo Faunus et igneam defendit aestatem capellis usque meis pluviosque ventos. impune tutum per nemus arbutos quaerunt latentes et thyma deviae olentis uxores mariti, nec viridis metuunt colubras nec Martialis haediliae lupos, utcumque dulci, Tyndari, fistula ...

Information about the life and work of Horace.

A Poem by Horace By Robert Hass March 29, 1998 It's spring. And here's a chance to print a song of the season that comes from a very old, sunlit, Mediterranean sanity. Also a chance to celebrate a remarkable recent book. One of the poets central to the history of lyric poetry in the European tradition is Quintus Horatius Flaccus, whom we know as Horace. He was born when Rome was emerging as a ...