I was lucky enough to find on the library shelves several translations of major works of Roman poets by David Ferry. Among these were the Odes and the Epistles of Horace. I must admit to the fact that I have not much indulged in the writing of Ancient times. I've read my share of the Greek playwrights (though not all, and not tremendously extensively), Ovid, Catullus, Martial, and most of the Major Historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius, Procopius, etc. I've dipped into the Aeneid (mostly through Purcell's Dido and Aeneas) , and Ovid's Ars Amatoric a and Metamorphoses but for the most part I've left most of the serious Roman poets alone. I've read their derivatives in 17th and 18th century English poetry and felt that was enough of an acquaintance. How very wrong I was. As usual. The blindspots in my education are really quite vast, and I can only hope to repair them as I discover them. It is a pleasure to find...