# The Carmen Saeculare is a 17 BCE civic hymn as court-and-college religion

Date: 17

## The fact

A state hymn can bind and can exclude. This stores official cult-verse as a cohesion-control path of medium confidence. The dated public instrument is stored under 1926-06-01. [Horace](/people/horace) did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

It is one event.

## Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Horace Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Horace’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional years are 65–8 BCE. Philippi, Maecenas, and the Carmen Saeculare are received chronology.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace — public English and Britannica — Horace independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace — public English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5419; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A state hymn can bind and can exclude. This stores official cult-verse as a cohesion-control path of medium confidence.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Horace.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `social-cohesion` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Horace did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct.

## People

- Horace: https://factrail.ai/people/horace

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5419
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Roman-poet

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hor-carmen-state-religion