Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words." December 6, 65 BC – November 25, 8 BC; died at 56. Alive at the same time as Julius Caesar, Strabo, Aglaonike, Virgil, and Augustus. Wiki link