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jarrigy's review against another edition
4.0
Regarding Horace, it doesn't take too long to settle in Rudd's rambunctious and ribald groove as translator, bringing to life the entertaining poetry of a sharp raconteur with the second collection of Epistles being the highlight. A shame then that I can't say the same of his approach to Persius, perhaps a case of one author being superior to the other, but in my view it coming across as more of a lack of interest on the part of the translator, coupled with his self-admitted difficulties in transcribing an author whose Latin appears to be comparitively difficuly to render.
sarbear19's review against another edition
3.0
Only finished what I needed to for school - but Horace is one big suck up to Augustus. Nonetheless, my fave Roman poet from the time.
torts's review against another edition
2.0
Having read six or seven of Horace's Satires, I think I can safely conclude that I would not want to be friends with this simpering ego of a man.
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