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Depone vanos invidiæ metus;

Urbisque, fidens dignitati,

Per plateas animosus audi.

En quo furentes Eumenidum choros

Disjecit almo fulmine Jupiter!

Huic ara stabit, fama cantu

Perpetuo celebranda crescet.

According to Bentley, the works of Horace were written in the following chronological order:—

Satires	Book	I.		in his	26th, 27th, and 28th years.
Satires	“	II.		“	31st, 32d, and 33d years.
Epodes				“	34th and 35th years.
Odes	“	I.		“	36th, 37th, and 38th years.
Odes	“	II.		“	40th and 41st years.
Odes	“	III.		“	42d and 43d years.
Epistles	“	I.		“	46th and 47th years.
Odes	“	IV.	}	“	49th, 50th and 51st years.
Secular Hymn			}	“	49th, 50th and 51st years.
Epistle to the Pisos			}		uncertain.
Epistles	“	II.	}		uncertain.

CHAPTER VII.
BIOGRAPHY OF MÆCENAS—HIS INTIMACY AND INFLUENCE WITH AUGUSTUS—HIS CHARACTER—VALGIUS RUFUS—VARIUS—CORNELIUS GALLUS—BIOGRAPHY OF TIBULLUS—HIS STYLE—CRITICISM OF MURETUS—PROPERTIUS—IMITATED THE ALEXANDRIAN POETS—ÆMILIUS MACER.