Excerpt from The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, Vol. 2: In Latin and English; With Critical Notes Collected From His Best Latin and French Commentators
Two Places in the Ode will direct us very nearly to fix the Date of it. Horace mentions the Fall of a Tree by which he was in Dan er of being killed an Accident, that happened in 733. 'lfe adds, in the thirty-ninth V erfe, that Augullus, fatigued with Conquefl, repofed hr'mfelf in the Cave of the Mufes but from 733 there is not any Year to which this may be juflly ap lied until 744, when Augufius, having ended the Wars 0 the Roman Empire, {hut the Temple of janus the' third and left Time. San.
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