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Horace

Roman lyric poet (65–8 BC) of the Augustan age who coined aurea mediocritas — the golden mean — in Odes 2.10.

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-65–-8
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Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BC) was the leading Roman lyric poet of the age of Augustus.[1] In Odes 2.10 he coined the phrase aurea mediocritas — the “golden mean” — counselling a life lived between extremes.[1]

OdesBook · -23Horace's four-book collection of Latin lyric poems (Carmina); Ode 2.10 contains the phrase aurea mediocritas, the golden mean.

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"Horace," Wikipedia.↩
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace

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