In a poem that opens by describing the melting of snow, he wrote that "we are but dust and shadow," although he ended an earlier work by commenting that through his writing he had made a monument more lasting than bronze.
This author included an adaptation of Aesop's fable about the country mouse and the city mouse in one of his satires. One of his most common subjects was life on his "Sabine farm," which was awarded to him through his friendship to Maecenas. In a poem that opens by describing the melting of snow, he wrote that "we are but dust and shadow," although he ended an earlier work by commenting that through his writing he had made a monument more lasting than bronze. In a work sometimes called "The Epistle to the Pisones," he coined the term "In medias res." In a work addressed to Lollius he wrote that brave men lived before Agamemnon, and another of his poems proclaims "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." For 10 points, name this Roman author of Ars Poetica and three books of odes.
This author included an adaptation of Aesop's fable about the country mouse and the city mouse in one of his satires.
{Horace} [or {Quintus Horatius Flaccus}]