 By then Horace had already received from Maecenas the famous gift of his Sabine farm, probably not long after the publication of the first book of "Satires".The gift, which included income from five tenants, may have ended his career at the Treasury, or at least allowed him to give it less time and energy.It signalled his identification with the Octavian regime yet, in the second book of "Satires" that soon followed, he continued the apolitical stance of the first book.