"Plainer myrtle pleases" the speaker of one of his poems who detests the titular "Persian Fopperies." This man wrote "To Chloë" and Epodes, and proposed the restoration of pantheon-worship in his Carmen Saeculare. In one work
"Plainer myrtle pleases" the speaker of one of his poems who detests the titular "Persian Fopperies." This man wrote "To Chloë" and Epodes, and proposed the restoration of pantheon-worship in his Carmen Saeculare. In one work, he compares the title entity to painting and discusses "in medias res," and his Satirae I and II contain eighteen poems of his namesake satire altogether. Penner of the lines "carpe diem" and "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," for 10 points, name this ancient Roman poet of the Ars Poetica.
"Plainer myrtle pleases" the speaker of one of his poems who detests the titular "Persian Fopperies."