Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Some thought on 'philology' and 'method' by way of preface; Abbreviations; A note on manuscripts and editions; Excerpta ex codicibus Blandiniis Cruquiana; Conspectus Siglorum; Part I. Epistles Book II: 1. Epistula ad Augustum; 2. Epistula ad Florum; Part II. Commentary: 1. Epistula ad Augustum; 2. Epistula ad Florum; Appendixes; Part III. The Letters to Augustus and Florus as Horatian Poetry: 1. Poetic patterns; 2. The letter to Augustus; 3. Diversity and unity in the letter to Augustus; 4. The letter to Florus; 5. Diversity and unity in the letter to Florus; 6. Horace's literary epistles and their chronology: Augustanism in the Augustan poets; Bibliography; Addenda and corrigenda to Volume II, the 'Ars Poetica'; Orthography; Indexes.

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This 1982 text is the culminating volume in Professor Brink's great study of Horace's critical writings.