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en-wikipedia-org-3240		Satires (Horace) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2835	354	72	The Satires (Latin: Satirae or Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written by the Roman poet, Horace. In his Sermones (Latin for "conversations") or Satires (Latin for "miscellaneous poems"), Horace combines Epicurean, that is, originally Greek, philosophy with Roman good sense to convince his readers of the futility and silliness of their ambitions and desires. 6.2 On-line editions of Horace's Satires, Latin In addition, Horace alludes to another inspiration, the poet Lucretius whose didactic epic De rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things"), also written in hexameters, popularized Epicurean physics in Rome.[9] For example, Horace's comparison of his satires with cookies that a teacher uses to encourage his students to learn their letters,[10] reminds of Lucretius' more traditional comparison of his poetry with the sugar that sweetens the bitter medicine of philosophy. Both in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, Horace was much better known for his Satires and the thematically-related Epistles than for his lyric poetry. On-line editions of Horace's Satires, Latin[edit] Horace's Satires, in English translation[edit]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3240.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3240.txt