Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, as the Roman poet, Virgil, declared with much more historical sense than most writers of today.

Some lines of the Roman poet Claudian inform us that he heard a voice proceeding from a sacred grove, " Break off all delays, Alaric.

The Roman poet, Horace, also compared the two, describing Alcaeus as " more full-throatedly singing "-see Horace's tribute below.

Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.

First described by the 1st-century AD Roman poet Martial, who praised its convenient use, the codex achieved numerical parity with the scroll around AD 300, and had completely replaced it throughout the now Christianised Greco-Roman world by the 6th century.

The proverbial phrase for it was coined by the Roman poet Horace in his Ars poetica:

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

In ancient literature, we find a reference to the workings of water-powered marble saws close to Trier, now Germany, by the late 4th century poet Ausonius ; about the same time, these mill types seem also to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.

* 65 BC – Horace, Roman poet ( d. 8 BC )

** Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )

** Thebaid and Achilleid by Statius ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )

Epigram is associated with ' point ' because the European epigram tradition takes the Latin poet Martial as its principal model ; he copied and adapted Greek models ( particularly the contemporary poets Lucillius and Nicarchus ) selectively and in the process redefined the genre, aligning it with the indigenous Roman tradition of ' satura ', hexameter satire, as practised by ( among others ) his contemporary Juvenal.

Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889 ) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

The poet Lucretius is its most known Roman proponent.

The classical hendecasyllable is a quantitative meter used in Ancient Greece in Aeolic verse and in scolia, and later by the Roman poet Catullus.

The first Latin poet to write on a Roman theme was Gnaeus Naevius during the 200s BC.

Other sources, including the Roman poet Ovid, claim instead that Lycaon ’ s punishment was transformation into a wolf, an early example of lycanthropy.

Lucius Afranius was an ancient Roman comic poet, who lived at the beginning of the 1st century BC.

The Roman poet Virgil called it " that castled cliff, Monoecus by the sea " ( Aeneid, VI. 830 ).

Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for " elders ," and that the following month ( June ) is named for the iuniores, or " young people " ( Fasti VI. 88 ).

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (,, Etruscan Θevrumineś ), was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, " part man and part bull ".

* 39 – Lucan, Roman poet ( d. 65 )

Тhe myth of Narcissus has inspired artists for at least two thousand years, even before the Roman poet Ovid featured a version in book III of his Metamorphoses.

The Roman poet Horace mentions it in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simple: " As for me, olives, endives, and smooth mallows provide sustenance.

Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as Cato, Cicero, Horace, and Virgil.

One final, amusing example that comments on the importance Roman poets placed on their verse rules comes from the Ars Poetica of Horace, line 263:

He seems to have followed the same path that Horace did, though Horace is much later, in that he is putting Roman ideas in Greek forms.

Horatian satire, named for the Roman satirist, Horace ( 65 BCE – 8 BCE ), playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour.

The two most prominent and influential ancient Roman satirists are Horace and Juvenal, who wrote during the early days of the Roman Empire.

* The Roman poet Horace publishes the first three books of Odes.

* Horace, Roman poet

** Horace, Roman poet ( b. 65 BC )

The notion of such an action by an audience was however recognized in antiquity, as seen particularly in the Roman theoretical concerns of Horace, who also lived in an age of increasing skepticism about the supernatural, in his Ars Poetica.

* Appian, “ The Civil Wars, Book I ” in Appian ’ s Roman History, Translated by Horace White.

Lemures is the more common literary term but even this is rare: it is used by the Augustan poets Horace and Ovid, the latter in his Fasti, the six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays and religious customs.

* November 27 – Horace, Roman poet ( b. 65 BC )

* December 8 – Horace, Roman poet ( d. 8 BC )

The famous Noric steel was largely used in the making of Roman weapons (" Noricus ensis ," Horace, Odes, i. 16. o ).

His departing words were immortalised in the seventh ode of the Roman poet Horace, in which he exhorts his companions to " nil desperandum ", " despair in no way ", and announces " cras ingens iterabimus aequor ", " tomorrow we shall set out upon the vast ocean ".

Archilochus was much imitated even up to Roman times and three other distinguished poets later claimed to have thrown away their shields — Alcaeus, Anacreon and Horace.

During the Trojan War, Telamonian Ajax kills Tecmessa's father and takes her captive ; his reason for doing so may have been, as the 1st century BC Roman poet, Horace, wrote, that Ajax was captivated by Tecmessa's beauty.

Satire is one of the few Roman additions to literature — Horace was the first to use satire extensively as a tool for argument, and Juvenal made it into a weapon.