Excerpt from Horace in London: Consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace The following Imitations of the Odes of Horace were originally written without any regard to regularity of succession. Many of them made their first appearance in a month ly publication, and the Odes best calculated to illustrate the topic of the day were, from time to time, pressed into the service. They are now classedt and drilled afresh: new troops, drafted from the Roman battalion; have raised them to their proper complement, and horace IN london is in readiness to take the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.