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Satires 1.5 narrates the journey to Brundisium as public diplomatic verse

Satires 1.5 tells the journey to Brundisium with Maecenas in the diplomatic year of the Tarentum/Brundisium file. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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Satires 1.5 tells the journey to Brundisium with Maecenas in the diplomatic year of the Tarentum/Brundisium file. The dated travel-poem is not the Sabine farm gift and not the generic patronage heading. Horace’s documented role is: He wrote a satire of the 37 BCE journey with Maecenas toward a diplomatic meeting. Maecenas travelled; Horace wrote the poem; later school-notes are not 37 type. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Horace's documented role is: He wrote a satire of the 37 BCE journey with Maecenas toward a diplomatic meeting.

Context

A triumviral meeting, unnamed muleteers in the poem, and Virgil as a fellow-traveller already sit in the satire. A comic journey is not unique authorship of the treaty. Later school maps are not 37 type. Named others on the file: Maecenas, Virgil as fellow-traveller in the poem, and unnamed diplomatic principals share the journey. The public setting is the file around -0037-06-01. The instrument stays Satires 1.5 narrates the journey to Brundisium as public diplomatic verse. The setting of Satires 1.5 narrates the journey to Brundisium as public diplomatic verse is the public file around -0037-06-01. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Why it matters

Complex shared embassy. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated travel-satire put a public peace-mission into verse, distinct from Maecenas patronage as a gift-heading. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Satires 1.5 narrates the journey to Brundisium as public diplomatic verse are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Horace

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He wrote a satire of the 37 BCE journey with Maecenas toward a diplomatic meeting. Maecenas travelled; Horace wrote the poem; later school-notes are not 37 type.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactSatires 1.5 narrates the journey to Brundisium as public diplomatic verse
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 June 37 · verified

    A dated travel-satire put a public peace-mission into verse, distinct from Maecenas patronage as a gift-heading.

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Perseus — Horace, Satires 1.5Perseus Digital Library · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — HoraceEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Perseus’s Satire 1.5 and Britannica independently mark the Brundisium journey-poem as a distinct instrument. Official: Perseus — Horace, Satires 1.5 (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0064 (opens in a new tab); Perseus Digital Library). Independent: Britannica — Horace, journey to Brundisium (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Roman-poet (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Perseus — Horace, Satires 1.5 (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0064 (opens in a new tab); Perseus Digital Library). Independent carrier: Britannica — Horace, journey to Brundisium (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Roman-poet (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: Satire 1.5 as a Brundisium-journey poem. Not established: that the treaty is Horace’s unique act. Established: a sourced public record of Satires 1.5 narrates the journey to Brundisium as public diplomatic verse under -0037-06-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Satires 1.5 narrates the journey to Brundisium as public diplomatic verse. Naming Horace does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0037-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorHorace
  2. contributed toFactSatires 1.5 narrates the journey to Brundisium as public diplomatic verse
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Satires 1.5 narrates the journey to Brundisium as public diplomatic verse. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/hor-brundisium-37

https://factrail.ai/facts/hor-brundisium-37

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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