This author wrote about the ridiculousness of a feathery creature with a horse's body and man's head in a letter to the Pisones. Thanks to his patron Maecenas, this poet lived on a "Sabine Farm" that he wrote of frequently. On poem by this man urges diligence against the Parthians and notes that it is sweet and (*) right to die for one's country. This poet praised Homer for beginning the Iliad "in medias res." For 10 points, name this Roman poet 
This author wrote about the ridiculousness of a feathery creature with a horse's body and man's head in a letter to the Pisones. Thanks to his patron Maecenas, this poet lived on a "Sabine Farm" that he wrote of frequently. On poem by this man urges diligence against the Parthians and notes that it is sweet and (*) right to die for one's country. This poet praised Homer for beginning the Iliad "in medias res." For 10 points, name this Roman poet of four books of Odes and a manual of literary theory entitled Ars Poetica.
This author wrote about the ridiculousness of a feathery creature with a horse's body and man's head in a letter to the Pisones.
{Horace} [or {Quintus Horatius Flaccus}]