Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 109
e opened. The first interviewwas unsatisfactory, the young poet being tongue-tiedand stammering, the great man reserved and haughty;they parted mutually dissatisfied. Nine months later,however, Mivcenas sent for him again, received himformally among his friends, and about three vears laterpresented… … Portrait head of Horace in a me-dallion of the third century THE LAND OF HORACE 81 friendship of the beady-eyed lyrist was sought by thegreat of the land for his own sake; they were civil tohim mostly in the hope of securing the dedication of apoem, by means of which their names would pass…
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