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Satires

Horace

John Conington's verse translation (1869); Satires I.2 and I.8, which Conington omitted, are supplied in Christopher Smart's prose (1756) and marked as such.

Horace's Satires (Sermones, published c. 35 and 30 BCE) are two books of conversational hexameter poems that shaped the genre of urbane, self-deprecating Roman satire. Rather than savage attack, they offer genial moral observation—on greed, ambition, friendship, and the art of living—drawn from the poet's own rise in Augustan Rome under the patronage of Maecenas. The verse translation is John Conington's (1869); the two satires he declined to render (I.2 and I.8) are supplied here in Christopher Smart's prose, each marked with a note.

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Contents

1. Book I
   1. Satire I
   2. Satire II
   3. Satire III
   4. Satire IV
   5. Satire V
   6. Satire VI
   7. Satire VII
   8. Satire VIII
   9. Satire IX
   10. Satire X
2. Book II
   1. Satire I
   2. Satire II
   3. Satire III
   4. Satire IV
   5. Satire V
   6. Satire VI
   7. Satire VII
   8. Satire VIII