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Horace's four books of odes are staples of Western / World civilization, but they are hard to learn to appreciate in the original Latin. This book extracts and glosses in context all the adjectival phrases from the odes to provide learners with an easier and faster way to understanding the language and to a larger vocabulary as well. The original poems are given in their entirety, with adjectives visually emphasized, stanza by stanza. A new appendix in the 2025 edition sequentially lists the proper names used in the odes. To cite the odes themselves: carpe diem!