Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (born December 8, 65 BC in Venusia (now Venosa) – died November 27, 8 BC in Rome), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."