Openings in Horace's Satires and Odes: poet, patron, and audience

PRESENCE AND THE FUTURE TENSE IN HORACE'S <em>ODES</em>

“…Pomeroy (1980) 37 states "the wish expressed by inseres is no longer confined to the stated addressee, but can be taken as the ideal second person singular of the future." Gold (1992) 176 argues that the subject of inseres could be "the Muses and the gods referred to in the previous lines and posterity;" Sutherland (2002) 31 thinks the reader may become "assimilated to the ode's addressee, who is implied in the second-singular form of inseres." Kovacs (2010) 308-9 argues that the subject of inseres is an "indefinite second person.…”

Presence and the Future Tense in Horace's Odes

“…Pomeroy (1980) 37 states "the wish expressed by inseres is no longer confined to the stated addressee, but can be taken as the ideal second person singular of the future." Gold (1992) 176 argues that the subject of inseres could be "the Muses and the gods referred to in the previous lines and posterity;" Sutherland (2002) 31 thinks the reader may become "assimilated to the ode's addressee, who is implied in the second-singular form of inseres." Kovacs (2010) 308-9 argues that the subject of inseres is an "indefinite second person.…”