Show COMPARES HORACE TO i 1 N PRESS AGENT ACT I jec Ie 1 1 historian likened I j Hora Horri J c tJ tin poet pact to a modern time I j I press Sent in in a t lecture before Lowell i institute last ni night ht Horace Hornce ho said aid a advertised the virtues of wine and t titus tui i made tho the p people great reat lIse users of or the I beverage Dur During ns the course of Juts his I lecture he ho sai said The odes of Horace were not Dot writ writS ten in striving for literary merit hut hIll for lor a commercial r reason ason Yint Vineyards ards and olive olivo orchards in in his time covered practically the whole of Ital Italy Cone Conse qU tho people were peaceful mid did not want war because war might injure thoe e industries To T o realize the tho position of Horace in in rn his time time imagine one of tho thu I cal g-cal ca 1 I poets of Europe today writing a u mal mag poem porm extolling uc the use of I opium anti and tho the pleasures to be derived from front that dru drug I I |