Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-15 | Page 23 | Stories in Stamps

STO a w IN II g STAMPS y S. S Klein a i I TWO THOUSAND years after r his birth the great Roman lyric poet Horace remains today the idol of many a college alum alum- 1 nus Bus For this genial versifier who sang the praises of a carefree carefree carefree care care- free indulgent life is still the favorite of those who studied his 1 Latin lines in school Quintus Horatius Flaccus born born- i in Italy in 65 B. B C. C was was' a directed by his father into a literary literary lit lit- lit lit- crary career The Thc wealthy Maecenas Mae Mae- cenas adviser to the Emperor Augustus became his patron set 5 him up in a villa on the Sabine Hills near Rome and brought to him the educated and the rich rich while Horace supplied the girls the wine vine and his odes for delightful de de- r J week These odes have inspired many a modern poet Horace died at the age of 57 Last year on the anniversary anniversary anniversary sary of ot his birth Italy issued a al al y series of stamps P PO o s T 4 cf T in his honor 50 The one shown I here with his picture quotes quotes- O a famous phrase of his his- in which he prophesied his his- so i m mortality mortality- n non o n o omni m n i sJ mean t i f r a j I shall 1 I wholly die Copyright 1936 NEA Service Inc c- c C NEXT EXT What What was the W worlds world's first commemorative stamp 1