Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror - Horace

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Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.

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Native Name: Q. Horatius Flaccus
Alternative Names: Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horatius Horatius Flaccus
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Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

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Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
regumque turres.

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Pale Death kicks in the huts of paupers
just as it does the towers of kings,

(Odes I, 4)

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