OR

THE BOOKS OF

HORACE

ARRANGED

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
ACCORDING TO THE SCHEME OF DR. BENTLEY,

FROM THE TEXT OF GESNER, CORRECTED
AND IMPROVED.

WITH

A PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION,

VERY MUCH ENLARGED,

ON

THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE WORKS, ON THE LOCALITIES, AND ON
THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THAT POET.

BY JAMES TATE, M. A.

SECOND EDITION.

TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED,

AN ORIGINAL

TREATISE ON THE METRES OF HORACE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1837.

[Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL GREY,

WHOSE UNWEARIED SERVICES,

AS AN ENLIGHTENED AND PATRIOTIC STATESMAN,

AND AT LENGTH UNEXAMPLED SUCCESS,
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF AN APPROVING SOVEREIGN,

AS A WISE AND TEMPERATE REFORMER,

WILL FIND AN IMPERISHABLE RECORD IN THE MEMORY OF HIS

GRATEFUL COUNTRYMEN,

THIS EDITION OF

HORATIUS RESTITUTUS

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

TO COMMEMORATE ONE OF THE NOBLEST AND KINDEST ACTS OF

PATRONAGE EVER CONFERRED,

AND TO TESTIFY AT ONCE THE PRIVATE GRATITUDE,

AND ON PUBLIC GROUNDS THE SINCERE VENERATION,

OF HIS LORDSHIP'S

MOST OBLIGED AND DEVOTED SERVANT,

RESIDENTIARY HOUSE, ST. PAUL'S,
August 1, 1837.

JAMES TATE.