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The works of Horace : with English notes, critical and ... - Cristo Raul

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404 EXPLANATOEY NOTES, EPODE IX.<br />

Epodk VII. After the overthrow <strong>of</strong> Sextos Pompeias, the repablio<br />

seomed once more destined to taste <strong>of</strong> repose. <strong>The</strong> respite, however,<br />

was <strong>of</strong> short duration, <strong>and</strong> the enmity <strong>of</strong> Octavianus <strong>and</strong> Antony soon re-<br />

' kuidled the flames <strong>of</strong> war. It was about this period that the present<br />

poem*was written. <strong>The</strong> bard mourns over the intestine divisions <strong>of</strong> hia<br />

coantrymen^f <strong>and</strong> imputes the botrors <strong>of</strong> the civil wars to the evil destiny<br />

entailed apon the Romans by the blood <strong>of</strong> B

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