Horace

Horace, Roman poet. This site has 2 entries dated between 65 BC and 8 BC involving Horace, listed in chronological order with the Roman date and calendar of each.

December 8 · a.d. VI Id. Dec. · Pre-reform Roman calendar
Birth of Horace (65 BC)
November 27 · a.d. V Kal. Dec. · Julian date · ≈ Nov 25 on our calendar
Death of Horace (8 BC)

LATIN LINE OF THE DAY

Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura quae legis hic.

“Some are good, some middling, more are bad, of what you read here.”

Martial, Epigrams 1.16 · translation ours (literal)