Horace Flashcards
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Lived during
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Augustus’s reign
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Cleopatra’s death
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But she sought a nobler way to die; she did not, like most women, fear the sword, now did she escape on a swift ship to some secret shore where she could hide. She dared to look upon her defeated palace calmly and bravely held onto the bitter snakes so that her body might drink their black poison. determined to die,she became even more fierce; she had no intention, although no longer a queen, to be brought in ships to Rome, and led in a proud triumph, for she was not some obscure, ordinary woman.
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How he presents Augustus
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Almost as a god