MONT
DWIGHT W. MORROW
MRS. D.W. MORROW
_Senatori Societatis Philosophiae_, [Greek: PhBK], _gratias maximas
agimus_
ELIHU ROOT
MORTIMER L. SCHIFF
WILLIAM SLOANE
GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM
And one contributor, who has asked to have his name withheld:
_Maecenas atavis edite regibus,_
_O et praesidium et dulce decus meum._

Washington

The Greek Embassy at Washington, for the Greek Government.

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HORACE AND HIS INFLUENCE

by

GRANT SHOWERMAN

Professor of Classics
The University of Wisconsin

George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd.
London Calcutta Sydney

The Plimpton Press Norwood Massachusetts

1922

To
HOWARD LESLIE SMITH
LOVER OF LETTERS

SABINE HILLS

O_n Sabine hills when melt the snows_,
S_till level-full His river flows_;
E_ach April now His valley fills_
W_ith cyclamen and daffodils_;
A_nd summers wither with the rose_.

S_wift-waning moons the cycle close_:
B_irth,--toil,--mirth,--death; life onward goes_
T_hrough harvest heat or winter chills_
O_n Sabine hills_.

Y_et One breaks not His long repose_,
N_or hither comes when Zephyr blows_;
I_n vain the spring's first swallow trills_;
N_ever again that Presence thrills_;
O_ne charm no circling season knows_
O_n Sabine hills_.

GEORGE MEASON WHICHER

EDITORS' PREFACE

The volume on Horace and His Influence by Doctor Showerman is the second
to appear in the Series, known as "Our Debt to Greece and Rome."

Doctor Showerman has told the story of this influence in what seems to
us the most effective manner possible, by revealing the spiritual
qualities of Horace and the reasons for their appeal to many generations
of men. These were the crown of the personality and work of the ancient
poet, and admiration of them has through successive ages always been a
token of aspiration and of a striving for better things.

The purpose of the volumes in this Series will be to show the influence
of virtually all of the great forces of the Greek and Roman
civilizations upon subsequent life and thought and the extent to which
these are interwoven into the fabric of our own life of to-day. Thereby
we shall all know more clearly the nature of our inheritance from the
past and shall comprehend more steadily the currents of our own life,
their direction and their value. This is, we tak