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{{Short description|Odes 1.1: 23 BC, Rome}}
'''''Odes'' 1.1''', also known by its incipit, ''Maecenas atavis edite regibus'', is the first of the ''[[Odes (Horace)|Odes]]'' of [[Horace]].<ref name=":0">Shorey; Laing 1911, p. 139.</ref> This ode forms the prologue to the three books of lyrics published by Horace in 23 BC and is a dedication to the poet's friend and patron, [[Gaius Maecenas|Maecenas]].<ref>Musurillo 1962, p. 230.</ref> The metre of the poem, like the final poem of book 3, is a [[stichic]] version of the [[Asclepiad (poetry)|Asclepiad]], known as the "1st Asclepiad".<ref>Nisbet, R. G. M.; Hubbard, M. (1970). ''A Commentary on Horace Odes book 1''. Oxford University Press.</ref>
== Summary ==
After the first two lines addressed to Maecenas, which virtually dedicate the whole collection to him, Horace rehearses the various interests of men, that at the end he may present his own ambition.<ref name=":1">Moore 1902, p. 51.</ref> Some men seek fame in athletic games or in politics (3–8), others have lower aims—riches, agriculture, commerce, epicurean ease, war, or hunting (9–28); but as for me, I have the loftiest aim of all, Maecenas—to wear the ivy wreath and be the Muse's dear companion.<ref name=":1" /> Rank me with the lyrists of Greece, and I shall indeed "knock at a star with my exalted head" (29–34).{{Efn|For similar Apology for Poetry, cf. Hor. ''[[Satires (Horace)|Sat.]]'' 2. 1. 24; [[Propertius|Propert.]] 4. 8; Verg. ''[[Georgics|G.]]'' 2. 475 sqq.; [[Pindar|Pind.]] fr. 221; [[Solon]], fr. 13 (4) 43 sqq.}}<ref name=":0" />
== Date ==
This is a dedication of the first three books of the ''Odes'' to [[Maecenas]].<ref name=":0" /> The first ''Epode'', the first Satire, and the first ''Epistle'' are addressed to the same patron and friend.<ref name=":0" /> Being the dedication, it was probably among the last of the odes of the first three books to be written.<ref name=":0" /> The collection was published in 23 BC.<ref name=":0" />
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== Bibliography ==
* {{Cite book |last=Bennett |first=Charles E. |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924083723696/page/n43/mode/2up |title=Horace: Odes and Epodes |publisher=Allyn and Bacon |year=1901 |location=Norwood, MA |pages=1–2}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Musurillo |first=Herbert |date=1962 |title=The Poet's Apotheosis: Horace, Odes 1.1 |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/283763 |journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association |volume=93 |pages=230–39|doi=10.2307/283763 |jstor=283763 }}
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* {{Cite book |last=Moore |first=Clifford Herschel |url=https://archive.org/details/horaceodesandep00horagoog/page/n50/mode/2up |title=Horace: The Odes and Epodes and Carmen Saeculare |publisher=American Book Company |year=1902 |location=United States |pages=51–5}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Shorey |first1=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/1808630.0001.001.umich.edu/page/138/mode/2up |title=Horace: Odes and Epodes |last2=Laing |first2=Gordon J. |publisher=Benj H. Sanborn & Co. |year=1911 |edition=Rev. |location=Boston, MA |pages=139–44}}  {{Source-attribution|pl=y}}
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