Quinti Horati Flacci Carminum Librum Quintum A Rudyardo Kipling et Carolo Graves.

KIPLING, Rudyard; Carolo Graves. Edited By A.D. Godley.

$200.00

Item Number: 121962

First edition of this collection Kipling and Graves’ translations of the Odes of Horace. Octavo, original half vellum. One of 160 numbered copies, this is number 47. In near fine condition.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). 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."