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136 - HORACE (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known as).
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HORACE (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known as). Carmina. A luxurious Strasbourg edition of the ‘Odes’ by the Epicurean poet Horace, in a fine binding in the Bozerian style. Strasbourg, Georges Treuttel, 1788. In folio, full glazed calfskin, binding in the Bozerian style, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleurons surrounded by gilt lozenges, with gilt fillets and garlands in the neoclassical style and a red leather title label, covers framed with gilt scrolls, gilt scrolls on the edges and on the fillets, gilt edges. In Latin, VII and 380 pp. A few stains and scuffs on the covers, worn caps and corners, some foxing, mainly on the endpapers, a water stain on the half-title page. A luxurious Strasbourg edition of the ‘Odes’ by the Epicurean poet Horace, in a fine binding in the Bozerian style. Printed on heavy paper. Text edited by Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806), a French philologist and archaeologist from Alsace, Doctor of Philosophy and librarian at the University of Strasbourg. In his ‘Odes’, Horace moves away from the satirical style in favour of a lyricism tinged with self-mockery. Here, the poet abandons the iambic and dactylic hexameter in favour of the major Asclepiadean verse, characteristic of lyric poetry, and the Alcaic stanza (of four lines), which has been virtually unused ever since. Whilst extolling the glory of Rome and Augustus’s policy of pacification, Horace praises the joys of an Epicurean life, sheltered from the torments of the world and the vain pleasures of ambition and wealth. On this occasion, he coins the famous ‘Carpe diem’, to which the Epicurean philosophy is sometimes hastily reduced. In it, the poet depicts himself as a swan taking flight with a solemnly burlesque emphasis. A superb binding in the Bozerian style, with the interior in very fresh condition.
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