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Horace (08 Dec 65 BCE - 27 Nov 8 BCE)

Alias Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Alias)

Roman statesman and lyric poet. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-3150?rskey=8dF71Z&result=1&q=horatius%20flaccus Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source)
 Relationships: Horace was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (63 BC-14)
Horace was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Marcus Junius Brutus (-85--42)

Virgil (15 Oct 70 BC-19 BC) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Horace
References in Documents:
Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638) Horat. in Arte. Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci.[*]He has achieved every point who has mixed the useful and the delightful.