Excerpt from The Works of Horace: With English Notes, for the Use of Schools and Colleges
I have also been able to avail myself of the Notes of Lambin, contained in the Aldine edition, published at Venice, 1566, a fine copy of which, forming a part of the rare col lection of Aldines in the private library of John Carter Brown, Esq, of this city, was kindly placed at my disposition by that gentleman.
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Horace was born in 65 bc.
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