The work for which he gained fame in his day was probably sung on the third day of the festival at the temple of Apollo. The poem is an exhortation to Phoebus and Diana. Following this, he purchased a farm near Tivoli where he wrote some satires, coining the phrase "the golden mean" in the process. Famously translated by Queen Elizabeth and Dryden, he was a military tribune under Marcus Brutus and later was patronized by Augustus and his best friend Maecenas. For 10 points, name this author of Epistles, Odes and the Secular Hymn, best known for
The work for which he gained fame in his day was probably sung on the third day of the festival at the temple of Apollo. The poem is an exhortation to Phoebus and Diana. Following this, he purchased a farm near Tivoli where he wrote some satires, coining the phrase "the golden mean" in the process. Famously translated by Queen Elizabeth and Dryden, he was a military tribune under Marcus Brutus and later was patronized by Augustus and his best friend Maecenas. For 10 points, name this author of Epistles, Odes and the Secular Hymn, best known for his Ars Poetica.
The work for which he gained fame in his day was probably sung on the third day of the festival at the temple of Apollo.
{Horace} or Qintus {Horatius} Flaccus