This author asked "What's wrong with someone laughing as they tell the truth?" and proclaimed "there is a middle ground in things."
This author asked "What's wrong with someone laughing as they tell the truth?" and proclaimed "there is a middle ground in things." This poet wrote lyric poems praising the beauty of Pyrrha and advising Licinius to follow the golden mean. This poet coined the expression "Homer nods" in an epistle which argues that the best epic poems begin (*) "in medias res." He created the phrase "carpe diem," or "seize the day," in the eleventh of his Odes. For 10 points, name this Roman poet of "Ars Poetica."
This author asked "What's wrong with someone laughing as they tell the truth?" and proclaimed "there is a middle ground in things."
{Horace} [or {Quintus Horatius Flaccus}]